anaheim-gazette 1914-02-26

ADDING ORGANIC MATTER TO SOIL VETCH AND CANADA PEA CONSIDERED THE BEST FERTILIZERS IN USE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE GIVES SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON SUBJECT By green manuring is meant the incorporation, through plowing or similar operations, of green organic matter into the soil. The purpose of it is to maintain or increase the organic matter supply of the soil, which, for reasons below given, constitutes one of the most important factors in soil fertility. Any green crop which yields a large tonnage of material in a short time may be used to add organic matter to the soil. There are some plants, however, which possess not merely the power of yielding large amounts of organic matter, but also the power of gathering from the air the most valuable, commercially, of the elements of plant food—nitrogen. These plants—the legumes—other conditions being equal, are therefore to be preferred for green manuring purposes to the non-legumes. They are plants which belong to the well known family of which peas, beans, vetches, alfalfa, the clovers, lupins, and many others are members. More specific information bearing on the choice of green manure crops in California is given below. Nothing more emphatic can be stated in support of green manuring under the proper conditions than a description of the role played by organic matter in soils. Such a description follows: 1. By its binding action on the soil particles and by its sponge-like absorptive power, organic matter makes sandy soils more retentive of moisture. (Improves water holding power.) 2. By its light yet bulky mass it prevents the extremely fine particles of clay soils from running together andley or rye about 20 pounds of the cereal with about 45 pounds of the vetch will be a good combination. Similar combinations may be made between field peas and bur clover and the cereals. As a cover crop and green manure crop in orchards the same legumes above recommended either alone or in combination with the grains may be employed. In orchards which are irrigated the cover crop may be sown in August or late in July. About 20 pounds per acre, less, of the seed is needed in orchards than on dry farmed land, since there must be considerable waste space between the trees owing to heavy shade in which the green manure crop will not grow. Plowing under of green manure crops should be done as late as possible consistent with maintaining good moisture conditions in the soil. This will necessarily vary under different conditions. About the second week in March will be a good time for dry farmed land as a general rule. If the rainfall is very small, plowing under should be accomplished earlier. On irrigated lands, it may often be feasible to let the cover crop grow until about three weeks prior to blossoming time and plowing it under then. It is important to plow the green material as well as any other form of organic matter deeply into the soil and cover it well. This is particularly true for loose, porous sandy soil. If very tall, the cover crop may first be dragged down with heavy chains or with a roller, then cut up with a disc run both ways and plowed under. Thorough packing and cutting up with a disc after turning under is also important to prevent the soil from drying out. 1. If growing vetch or field peas for the first time, take no chances on possible natural inoculation. (Directions for inexpensive inoculation are fully given in Circular No. 87 on Alfalfa.) 2. When water is scarce do not grow a winter cover crop. It will not only rob trees of water in the case of an orchard, but in dry farmed land will make the soil too dry to grow a profitable crop after it. 3. In addition to danger in cases of lack of water from robbing the following crop of needed moisture, it must be added that when the cover crop is turned under the soil will be too dry to decay it. Therefore, the organic matter will not only give no good effects, but by its bulky nature will leave the soil loose and porous and thus help it to dry and lose moisture all the quicker. VAST DOMINANT UNTIL LAND ALMOST ONE BIRD CAPABLE OF CUT NOW LYING POULTRY, POTATO AMONG THE FUTURE TRIES OF A The "back to the still has plenty of recording to figures just the Department of Agriculture show that there are acres of tillable land States which has need by a plow. In fact, on the land of this country farming is now use The remaining 73 percent include 61,000,000 acres tillable, but valuable fruit growing. The most thorough states are Illinois and every acre tilled there Indiana is next with 1.8; in New York it is to 2.4 untitled, and to general throughout New Zona has the greatest tilled land, having 76 idle for every acre on now raised. In New York to 31.2; in Nevada one to 25.0 shows one to 6.1. The entire United foreign territory contains 000,000 acres. Of this or 1,114,000,000 acres be tillable, including though not tillable able made so by clearing draining. About 19 fruit or forage crops will probably never be an agricultural standard. An extensive study preventing the shrub shipped on the hoof is conducted by the Depar More specific information bearing on the choice of green manure crops in California is given below. Nothing more emphatic can be stated in support of green manuring under the proper conditions than a description of the role played by organic matter in soils. Such a description follows: 1. By its binding action on the soil particles and by its sponge-like absorptive power, organic matter makes sandy soils more retentive of moisture. (Improves water holding power.) 2. By its light yet bulky mass it prevents the extremely fine particles of clay soils from running together and becoming cemented. (Improves essential feature of aeration in heavy soils.) 3. Organic matter contains most of the nitrogen found in soils and all plants except the legumes are absolutely dependent on it for their supply of that essential element. 4. Organic matter is the source of energy and the laboratory in which the important beneficial soil bacteria manufacture available plant food and bring about other changes of importance to plants. 5. Through its decomposition by soil micro-organisms, organic matter acts as a source of carponic acid and other weak acids which help to dissolve and make available the mineral matter necessary to the growth of plants. Green Manure Crops for California Since the addition of nitrogen to California soils is most likely to be the form of fertilization most needed, it is obvious from what has been said above that the leguminous cover crop deserves first consideration where it is possible to obtain even a fair winter growth, for through it we can obtain not only the organic matter, but the nitrogen which it obtains from the air besides. In the practical experience of fruit growers, and ranchers generally, the common vetch and the Canada field pea have given the best results as winter cover and green manure crops in California. The bur clover takes the next place to the two mentioned. In general, the vetch does best south of the Tehachapi and in sheltered, and isolated valleys in other places. The Canada field pea is to be preferred in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys and adjacent regions. Exceptions will occur to this as to other rules, but the statement will serve as a good guide. Bur clover will do well all over California, but it does not produce as large a tonnage as the vetch not the field peas. Other crops which may be used when prices of seed allow are fenugreek, tangier peas, and lentils. If climatic conditions are such as to preclude the possibility of much growth during the winter when ordinary green manure crops are grown, either the vetch or the Canada field peas may be planted together with one of the grains, thus, field peas and oats, or vetch and barley, or bur clover and barley. If no growth at all is made by the legumes then the cereals may be grown alone, provided it is remembered that they do not add nitrogen to the store already in the soil but merely return what they remove. They do, however, add large quantities of organic matter. NEW FRUIT FROM THE PHILIPPINES P. J. Wester Introducing a Variety Into the Southland P. J. Wester, horticultural commissioner from the United States, who has been making investigations in the Philippines, has introduced the marang to the growers of Southern California and thinks it can be cultivated here with profit. In sending a quantity of seeds here he says: "These seeds were collected in Zamboanga during my recent trip to Mindanao. This is my second opportunity to test the marang, and I have no hesitation to declare it as one of the coming tropical fruits even in its present undeveloped state. It is very sweet and rich in flavor, and has the unique quality of having a flesh that separates readily and absolutely from the seeds and the skin. As far as I have been able to ascertain the marang occurs only on the south coast of Mindanao and in the Sulu archipelago. On my return to Manila I met on the steamer a missionary that had lived in Borneo for three years, part of which time was spent in Sandakan; she had neither heard of nor seen the fruit before. The marang will probably not succeed except where the climate is warm and humid throughout the year and the atmosphere close and still. The tree is also known as madang. It is a medium-sized tree with large dark green leaves, entire or more or less conspicuously trilobate, 18 to 24 inches long and 10 to 12 inches broad, similar in habit to the breadfruit, and is found on the south coast of Mindanao and in the Sulu archipelago, and was first described from Mindoro. The fruit is large, about six inches long and five inches in equatorial diameter, roundish oblong, regular, thickly studded with soft greenish yellow spines about one-third of an inch in length on the outside; rind thick and fleshy; flesh white, sweet, rich, juicy, aromatic and of good flavor, separated into segments (of about the size of a grape) clinging to the core; each segment containing a seed; seeds many, whitish, one-third by three-fifths of an inch, smooth, separating readily from the flesh. When the fruit is ripe, by passing a knife around and through the rind, with a little care the two halves separate from the flesh leaving this like a bunch grow a winter cover crop. It will not only rob trees of water in the case of an orchard, but in dry farmed land will make the soil too dry to grow a profitable crop after it. In addition to danger in cases of lack of water from robbing the following crop of needed moisture, it must be added that when the cover crop is turned under the soil will be too dry to decay it. Therefore, the organic matter will not only give no good effects, but by its bulky nature will leave the soil loose and porous and thus help it to dry and lose moisture all the quicker. Efforts to dodge planting cotton late by the government entomology, in spite of prevails very generally South. In fact the movements along this line crops are a decided one field in Louisiana were picked from been planted early joining field that had yield was but 655 In another instance 22d produced but one per acre, though in 1947 a month earlier, it got the acre. Chickens and poultry strawberries and currants are among the possessions which is considered experiments in that its four stations thru miles of the Arctic If climatic conditions are such as to preclude the possibility of much growth during the winter when ordinary green manure crops are grown, either the vetch or the Canada field peas may be planted together with one of the grains, thus, field peas and oats, or vetch and barley, or bur clover and barley. If no growth at all is made by the legumes then the cereals may be grown alone, provided it is remembered that they do not add nitrogen to the store already in the soil but merely return what they remove. They do, however, add large quantities of organic matter. The cost of water and the ease with which it can be obtained are seldom such in California as to justify the growing of a summer cover crop or green manure crop. Certainly, the experimental trials thus far with summer cover crops have not given results which justify their use. Where, however, water is cheap and can be obtained in large amounts summer cover crops will pay well. This is especially true for soils markedly deficient in humus and nitrogen. Under such circumstances the cow pea, velvet bean, or soybean will give very good results. These, like the winter growing legumes above described may be combined with one of the cereals. The Whippoorwill variety of the cow pea gives good results in California. About 50 pounds of seed to the acre for irrigated orchards and other irrigated land will give a good stand. Cow peas are wrongly named and are really beans. They are, therefore, summer growing crops and cannot be used as a winter growing green manure crop like the vetch and peas. Under dry farming conditions the best time to plant a green manure crop is just after the first rains. The seed should be drilled in and about 60 pounds per acre of the vetch seed used or 80 pounds of the field pea seed, because the latter is a larger seed. Of the bur clover seed 20 pounds per acre will do. If vetch is combined with barley, about six inches long and five inches in equatorial diameter, roundish oblong, regular, thickly studded with soft greenish yellow spines about one-third of an inch in length on the outside; rind thick and fleshy; flesh white, sweet, rich, juicy, aromatic and of good flavor, separated into segments (of about the size of a grape) clinging to the core; each segment containing a seed; seeds many, whitish, one-third by three-fifths of an inch, smooth, separating readily from the flesh. When the fruit is ripe, by passing a knife around and through the rind, with a little care the two halves separate from the flesh leaving this like a bunch of white grapes. Ripe fruits were obtained in August. The marang is far superior to its relatives, the jak and the ordinary breadfruits found in the Philippines, and already in its present form is a remarkably good and attractive fruit. The tree was noted by the writer in Zamboango and Davao." RELICS OF PAST TRADITIONS The filing of the Government suit for the unmerging of the Southern Pacific and the Union Pacific against the vigorous protest of the commercial bodies of the State of California and against the expressed judgment of the State Railroad Commission concerning the best interest of this coast, brings the people of California face to face with a practical example of the Wilson theory of competition as a means of railroad control. As we have pointed out heretofore, we do not see the logic in trying to maintain competition between two railroads when the Government reserves the authority to fix the rates and regulate the service of both of them, and we think the great majority of the people are equally unable to assign a good reason. The Wilson policy in this respect appears to be a survival of Democratic doctrines that were formulated in the light of other days and calculated to meet conditions that have passed away. Chicken thieves have active in town of late barnyards have been reported that one man part of town whose wife it led and his chickens his yard the next month containing $80. Later he covered a man lookin fence, apparently in thing he had lost probably be confiscation for the many mills during the past week VAST DOMAIN OF UNTILLED LANDS ALMOST ONE BILLION ACRES CAPABLE OF CULTIVATION NOW LYING IDLE POULTRY, POTATOES AND FRUITS AMONG THE FUTURE INDUSTRIES OF ALASKA The "back to the soil" movement still has plenty of room to grow according to figures just made public by the Department of Agriculture, which show that there are today 833,000,000 acres of tillable land in the United States which has never been turned by a plow. In fact, only 27 per cent of the land of this country capable of being farmed is now under cultivation. The remaining 73 per cent does not include 61,000,000 acres which are non-tillable, but valuable for pasture or fruit growing. The most thoroughly cultivated states are Illinois and Iowa, where for every acre tilled there is 1.6 untilled. Indiana is next with a ratio of one to 1.8; in New York it is one acre tilled to 2.4 untified, and that proportion is general throughout New England. Arizona has the greatest proportion of untilled land, having 76.7 available acres idle for every acre on which crops are now raised. In New Mexico it is one to 31.2; in Nevada one to 28.3 and in Montana one to 25. California's rating shows one to 6.1. The entire United States, excluding foreign territory, contains about 1,900,000,000 acres. Of this about 60 per cent or 1,114,000,000 acres, is estimated to be tillable, including that which, though not tillable at present, may be made so by clearing, irrigating or draining. About 19 per cent is fit for fruit or forage crops and 21 per cent will probably never be of any use from an agricultural standpoint. An extensive study of methods of preventing the shrinkage of cattle shipped on the hoof has just been concluded by the Department of Agricul- VALUE OF ISLAND POSSESSIONS Extraordinary Increase in Wealth Since Being Annexed to United States The total number of islands under possession of the United States is 8,000, according to a report received by the National Geographic Society. The remarkable development of United States island possessions is shown in the report, which says in part: The islands now support a population of 10,000,000, or more than the entire United States a century ago. Their commerce exceeds $300,000,000, or more than that of the United States in any year prior to 1850; the American capital invested in them aggregates approximately $400,000,000; they send out $100,000,000 of their products every year, and take in exchange nearly $100,000,000. The island of Luzon, in the Philippines, is as large as Belgium, Holland and Denmark, which support a population of 15,000,000; Mindanao is as big as Indiana, Hawaii is as large as Connecticut, and Porto Rico is larger than Delaware and Rhode Island put together. When the United States took hold of Porto Rico 15 years ago there was but one building in the entire island which had been erected for school purposes; today there are 1,200 buildings erected for school purposes. There were 25,000 pupils enrolled in the public schools in the first year of the American administration; now the total is 175,000. The island then had one well constructed road of 40 miles, connecting its two principal cities; now there are nearly 1,000 miles of road suitable for motor vehicles. Then the production of sugar, the principal crop, was 65,500 tons a year; now it is 365,500. The foreign commerce was about 20,000,000 a year; now it is nearly $100,000,000. Then the island bought about $2,500,000 worth of products a year; now nearly $40,000,000. Porto Rico and Hawaii supply about one fourth of the sugar used in the United States. Hawaii has been extremely prosperous since it became permanently under the American flag in 1900. The assessed value of property has increased one half, the value of the sugar crop has more than doubled, the deposits in banks have trebled, and the deposits in saving banks have quadrupled. The irrigation system is remarkable, and SUPERVISORS IN SESSION Routine Work Transacted by Board Last Tuesday Santa Ana, Cal., Feb. 17, 1914. The board met pursuant to adjournment. Present, Supervisors H. E. Smith, Fred W. Struck and Jasper Leck, and the clerk. Absent, Supervisors T. B. Talbert and Wm. Schumacher. Supervisor Smith was elected chairman pro tem. The sheriff was given a leave of absence from the state for 60 days on official business. The contract for supplying the county hospital with electrical fixtures was awarded to Robertson & Packard for $412.00. The hearing of the petition of I. L. Marchant, et al., to vacate and abandon a street in Tustin road district was set for March 4, 1914, at 11 A.M. The contract for painting and staining the floors of cottages at county farm was awarded to H. J. Roberts for $30.00. The resignation of E. A. Chaffee as superintendent of the county farm was accepted to take effect March 1, 1914. A deed for right-of-way for Newport Beach road was accepted. The resignation of Will R. McAllep as justice of the peace of Los Alamitos township was accepted. The board appointed Roy C. Parker justice of the peace of Los Alamitos township for the unexpired term. The bid of Ray Lambert for furnishing the county of Orange with 1,000 Valencia orange trees for county farm at 75 cents per tree was accepted. The board appointed George W. Clement superintendent of the county farm, to commence March 1, 1914. The map of tract No. 2, Seal Beach tract, was accepted as the official plotting of said tract. The application of Geo. E. Peters, county recorder, for additional assistants for his office was denied. The petition of Arthur H. Lyon, et al., for a county road 40 feet wide, was presented and J. L. McBride, Frank Crawford and James S. Rice were appointed as viewers to view the proposed road. No bids being received for the Bay City school district bonds, the matter was continued to March 4, 1914, at 11 The entire United States, excluding foreign territory, contains about 1,900,000,000 acres. Of this about 60 per cent or 1,114,000,000 acres, is estimated to be tillable, including that which, though not tillable at present, may be made so by clearing, irrigating or draining. About 19 per cent is fit for fruit or forage crops and 21 per cent will probably never be of any use from an agricultural standpoint. An extensive study of methods of preventing the shrinkage of cattle shipped on the hoof has just been concluded by the Department of Agriculture. The methods promise to save hundreds of dollars to the farmers and stock raisers. Heretofore it has not been uncommon for a steer to reach the stock yards weighing from 60 to 75 pounds less than when he left the farm, but by proper feeding this may be materially reduced. In 265 shipments of cattle, comprising 19,000 head, the loss ranged from 2.14 to 7 per cent, depending on the length of the time the cattle were route, the treatment they received en route, and what they had in their stomachs when they started. Steers show less shrinkage than cows, but the difference is not as great as many shippers suppose. “If cattle are to be in transit 24 hours or longer, it is a good plan to feed about two bales of nice, bright hay for each carload a few hours before loading,” is the advice of the department. “There is no way of entirely preventing shrinkage, but by judicious care in the handling and feeding the cattle just previous to shipping the shrinkage may be lessened. The shrinkage of fed cattle does not differ greatly from that of range cattle fed for equal periods of time. Cattle fed on silage have a large gross shrinkage, but usually ‘fill’ so well when fed at the market that the net shrinkage is small. Pulp fed cattle shrink more in transit than any other class of cattle and also show a greater net shrinkage. For a long journey the common method of unloading for feed, water and rest is preferred to the use of ‘feed and water’ cars.” Efforts to dodge the boll weevil by planting cotton late have been proven fruitless by the government bureau of entomology, in spite of the theory that prevails very generally through the South. In fact the most recent experiments along this line show that late crops are a decided disadvantage. In one field in Louisiana last year 1,125 were picked from an acre that had been planted early, while in an adjoining field that had been planted late the yield was but 650 pounds per acre. In another instance a field planted May 22d produced but one-fourth of a bale per acre, though in 1911, when planted a month earlier, it gave half a bale to the acre. Chickens and potatoes and even strawberries and currants from Alaska are among the possibilities of the future, says the Department of Agriculture which is conducting a series of experiments in that country. One of its four stations there is within 75 miles of the Arctic Circle, and even The entire United States, excluding foreign territory, contains about 1,900,000,000 acres. Of this about 60 per cent or 1,114,000,000 acres, is estimated to be tillable, including that which, though not tillable at present, may be made so by clearing, irrigating or draining. About 19 per cent is fit for fruit or forage crops and 21 per cent will probably never be of any use from an agricultural standpoint. An extensive study of methods of preventing the shrinkage of cattle shipped on the hoof has just been concluded by the Department of Agriculture. The methods promise to save hundreds of dollars to the farmers and stock raisers. Heretofore it has not been uncommon for a steer to reach the stock yards weighing from 60 to 75 pounds less than when he left the farm, but by proper feeding this may be materially reduced. In 265 shipments of cattle, comprising 19,000 head, the loss ranged from 2.14 to 7 per cent, depending on the length of the time the cattle were route, and what they had in their stomachs when they started. Steers show less shrinkage than cows, but the difference is not as great as many shippers suppose. “If cattle are to be in transit 24 hours or longer, it is a good plan to feed about two bales of nice, bright hay for each carload a few hours before loading,” is the advice of the department. “There is no way of entirely preventing shrinkage, but by judicious care in the handling and feeding the cattle just previous to shipping the shrinkage may be lessened. The shrinkage of fed cattle does not differ greatly from that of range cattle fed for equal periods of time. Cattle fed on silage have a large gross shrinkage, but usually ‘fill’ so well when fed at the market that the net shrinkage is small. Pulp fed cattle shrink more in transit than any other class of cattle and also show a greater net shrinkage. For a long journey the common method of unloading for feed, water and rest is preferred to the use of ‘feed and water’ cars.” Efforts to dodge the boll weevil by planting cotton late have been proven fruitless by the government bureau of entomology, in spite of the theory that prevails very generally through the South. In fact the most recent experiments along this line show that late crops are a decided disadvantage. In one field in Louisiana last year 1,125 were picked from an acre that had been planted early, while in an adjoining field that had been planted late the yield was but 650 pounds per acre. In another instance a field planted May 22d produced but one-fourth of a bale per acre, though in 1911, when planted a month earlier, it gave half a bale to the acre. Chickens and potatoes and even strawberries and currants from Alaska are among the possibilities of the future, says the Department of Agriculture which is conducting a series of experiments in that country. One of its four stations there is within 75 miles of the Arctic Circle, and even The entire United States, excluding foreign territory, contains about 1,900,000,000 acres. Of this about 60 per cent or 1,114,000,000 acres, is estimated to be tillable, including that which, though not tillable at present, may be made so by clearing, irrigating or draining. About 19 per cent is fit for fruit or forage crops and 21 per cent will probably never be of any use from an agricultural standpoint. An extensive study of methods of preventing the shrinkage of cattle shipped on the hoof has just been concluded by the Department of Agriculture. The methods promise to save hundreds of dollars to the farmers and stock raisers. Heretofore it has not been uncommon for a steer to reach the stock yards weighing from 60 to 75 pounds less than when he left the farm, but by proper feeding this may be materially reduced. In 265 shipments of cattle, comprising 19,000 head, the loss ranged from 2.14 to 7 per cent, depending on the length of the time the cattle were route, and what they had in their stomachs when they started. Steers show less shrinkage than cows, but the difference is not as great as many shippers suppose. “If cattle are to be in transit 24 hours or longer, it is a good plan to feed about two bales of nice, bright hay for each carload a few hours before loading,” is the advice of the department. “There is no way of entirely preventing shrinkage, but by judicious care in the handling and feeding the cattle just previous to shipping the shrinkage may be lessened. The shrinkage of fed cattle does not differ greatly from that of range cattle fed for equal periods of time. Cattle fed on silage have a large gross shrinkage, but usually ‘fill’ so well when fed at the market that the net shrinkage is small. Pulp fed cattle shrink more in transit than any other class of cattle and also show a greater net shrinkage. For a long journey the common method of unloading for feed, water and rest is preferred to the use of ‘feed and water’ cars.” Efforts to dodge the boll weevil by planting cotton late have been proven fruitless by the government bureau of entomology, in spite of the theory that prevails very generally through the South. In fact the most recent experiments along this line show that late crops are a decided disadvantage. In one field in Louisiana last year 1,125 were picked from an acre that had been planted early, while in an adjoining field that had been planted late the yield was but 650 pounds per acre. In another instance a field planted May 22d produced but one-fourth of a bale per acre, though in 1911, when planted a month earlier, it gave half a bale to the acre. Chickens and potatoes and even strawberries and currants from Alaska are among the possibilities of the future,says the Department of Agriculture which is conducting a series of experiments in that country. One of its four stations there is within 75 miles of the Arctic Circle,and even The entire United States ,excluding foreign territory ,contains about 1,900,000,a year; now it is nearly $100,$000,a year; now nearly $40,$000,a year; now nearly $40,$000,a year; now nearly $40,$000,a year; now nearly $40,$000,a year; now nearly $40,$000,a year; now nearly $40,$000,a year; now nearly $40,$000,a year; now nearly $40,$000,a year; now nearly $4 Chickens and potatoes and even strawberries and currants from Alaska are among the possibilities of the future, says the Department of Agriculture which is conducting a series of experiments in that country. One of its four stations there is within 75 miles of the Arctic Circle, and even there many varieties of cereals and vegetables have been grown. Altogether there are approximately 100,000 square miles of tillable land in Alaska and the territorial homestead laws allow the settler to file on 320 acres. The greatest drawback is that only a small percentage of this land is along the southern coast where the climate is least severe, the mountains there beng very near the coast line. The department also reports fully on the dreary side of life for the peninsular farmer. The spring thaws make travel impossible, the long winters require frost buildings for people and livestock, the gnats and mosquitos make the summers almost unendurable at seasons, and the land must be cleared of much heavy moss, which hurts the crops if plowed under. Chicken thieves have been unusually active in town of late, and a number of barnyards have been ransacked. It is reported that one man in the western part of town whose barnyard was visited and his chickens stolen, found in his yard the next morning a purse containing $80. Later in the day he discovered a man looking over his back fence, apparently in search of something he had lost. The money will probably be confiscated as part payment for the many raids on henroosts during the past week or two. For the year just ended the value of automobiles exported from the United States to other countries is placed at $40,000,000, as against a total of automobile exports in 1903 of less than $2,000,000. In the same period the importation of automobiles into the United States has been steadily declining. From 1909 to 1913 the value of imported machines fell off $2,500,000, the total value of all machines imported last year being only $1,500,000. In the face of no small amount of pessimism regarding the so-called limitations of the automobile market, manufacturers and dealers in the United States assert even now that their industry is only in its infancy. It must be acknowledged that appearances tend strongly to confirm their judgment. FARMING IN AUSTRALIA Modern farming methods, says M. H. East, combined with scientific fertilization, have caused the grain exports of Australia to more than double in a period of five years. He states that Australia will export 125,000,000 bushels of the 1913 grain crop, or 25,-000,000 more than the United States for the same year's crop, and that inside of eight years Australia will be exporting over 200,000,000 bushels. "The days of immense undivided estates in Australia have gone by," said Mr. East, "and the large tracts of land are now being divided up into farms of from 80 to 100 acres. This has proved an attraction to would-be settlers, who are now flocking into the country by thousands. "Last year brought 95,000 of these settlers from all parts of the world, and those who are coming to Australia are of the most desirable. Americans, English, Canadians and Germans predominate, and that they feel satisfied with the country is apparent from the fact that those who come come to stay and make their permanent homes." 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