anaheim-gazette 1915-06-10

AMERICAN SAVINGS BANK OF ANAHEIM A GOOD BANK TO BE WITH “Mid pleasures and palaces, there’s no place like home” (if you own it). Many a man owns his home because he has had the wisdom and foresight to build up a savings account in this bank. 4 per cent paid on term deposits. INSECT CONTROL BY FUMIGATION PROCESS PROF. QUAYLE OF COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE GIVES SOME VALUABLE INFORMATION BEST METHODS DISCUSSED AND BEST SOLUTION DETERMINED AFTER EXPERIMENTS ing the gas in pots comes in the form of egg-like lumps and is known as cyanegg. Cyanide in this form is more easily handled, and the uniform sized lumps insure a uniform generation of the gas. The cost of sodium cyanide is 22 to 27 cents per pound. The acid used in fumigation is the commercial sulphuric acid of 66 deg. Beaume, or about 93 per cent pure. The cost of this product is from 1½ to 2 cents per pound. In addition to the acid, water is necessary for the generation of hydrocyanide acid gas from the cyanide. To insure the proper generation, and secure the maximum amount of gas, the cyanide, acid and water must be used in the proper proportions. For sodium cyanide these proportions are PROF. QUAYLE OF COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE GIVES SOME VALUABLE INFORMATION BEST METHODS DISCUSSED AND BEST SOLUTION DETERMINED AFTER EXPERIMENTS Fumigation is the most satisfactory treatment for the control of scale insects on citrus trees. The denseness of foliage and compactness or growth of citrus trees make them well suited for a gas treatment within an enclosed tent covering. Most citrus growers are not so directly interested in the details of the fumigation processes because such work has been usually done by contract, by the local Fruit Growers' Exchange, or by an association. However, the growers themselves should understand enough of the essentials of fumigation work to pass proper judgment on the character of such work. As compared with other necessary operations in the citrus grove, such as cultivating, irrigating, pruning, and fertilizing, most growers know the least about fumigating. At the present time there are three chief grades of tenting material on the market for fumigation work, says H. J. Quayle, of the state experiment station. These are the 8-ounce army duck, the 8-ounce double filled duck, and the 6½ ounce drill. The first of those materials is by far the tightest cloth and is the most desirable. The other two allow about the same amount of leakage of gas, the duck being heavier and more substantial than the drill. The tenting material now in general use consists almost entirely of the 8-ounce double filled duck and the 6½-ounce drill. The two points to consider in the purchasing of tents is closeness of weave and durability. The term double filled duck is somewhat misleading because it is double filled in one direction only, while the special army duck is double filled in both warp and woof. Fumigation tents may be purchased from the dealers in Los Angeles, properly marked and in any size desired. The commonest sizes are from 36 to 45 foot sizes, with larger ones up to 84 foot tents for large seedling trees. The size of the larger trees will determine the size of the tents to pur- term double filled duck is somewhat misleading because it is double filled in one direction only, while the special army duck is double filled in both warp and woof. Fumigation tents may be purchased from the dealers in Los Angeles, properly marked and in any size desired. The commonest sizes are from 36 to 45 foot sizes, with larger ones up to 84 foot tents for large seedling trees. The size of the largest trees will determine the size of the tents to purchase. If there are but a few trees that are very much larger than the others then two or three larger sized tents are desirable. The cost of a 45 foot tent will range between $35 and $50 according to the grade of cloth. The number of tents to an outfit is about thirty, although double that number is often used. Excepting with the very large size tents, poles are used in lifting the tents over the trees. These are from 2 to 2½ inches in diameter, and should be of straight grained pine. The length of the poles is usually 14 or 16 feet. A half-inch rope is stapled about 6 inches from one end of the pole, and is long enough to reach two or three feet beyond the opposite end. The tent is secured to the end of the pole by placing a fold over the end of the pole and then working a half hitch over the cloth with the rope. Where rings are fastened to the tents these are hooked over a metal pin on the end of the pole. Sodium cyanide NaCN is now exclusively used in fumigation work because of its lower cost and greater source of supply. Sodium Cyanide is now manufactured in this country, while the potassium cyanide, formerly used, came almost entirely from Germany. The sodium cyanide for fumigation work is 129 per cent purity. This percentage of purity is on the basis of 100 per cent potassium cyanide. Much of the cyanide now in use for generat- A fumigating outfit consists of approximately thirty tents. More are often handled in the case of small trees, and fewer, if the trees are very large. Thirty-three or four earthenware generating pots and a commissary cart or tray, with minor appurtenances, such as scales, measuring vessels, rubber gloves, etc., are necessary. The crew required to operate the outfit consists of five men; two to pull the tents, one to measure the tented tree, kick in the tent, and indicate the dosage, and two to attend to the commissary and do the generating. Sometimes but four men are used. Where the portable generator is used, this number is sufficient. Such a crew and outfit will treat about 400 trees in a night. The cost of fumigating varies from 20 cents to $1.50 per tree, with an average cost between 25 and 30 cents. When the tent is placed on the tree by the tent pullers, the dosage man goes around the tree and kicks in the tent, at the same time reading the distance over and measuring the distance around by means of a tape which he has secured to the tent at the starting point. The cyanide man weighs out the amount of cyanide indicated, while the other man measures out the corresponding amounts of acid and water, All sorts of cleverly by the bunco men migrant from his most common game bunco artist are when exchange of currency your money in a brook who practice are usually of the sort intended victim their language. The migrant naturally takes one of his own little persuasion in his money with the brook has been swindled of a life time. Because of the in bunco men plying foronia, the Commission and Housing was to be aware of the guise of a friend them in any scheme will have to part Immigrants are warned with their money sulting with some matter to the police ferring with the their native country sion at room 215 U 525 Market street, Placentia has our department which guard that town f in the future. L. B. Spicer and for Iola, Kansas, make their home in and places them in the generating jar. He then carries this generating vessel and also the cyanide to the tent under which the charge is set, while the tent is held up by the other man. The man handling the acid is not permitted to touch the tent at any time. A machine for generating the gas is now on the market, which gives promise of coming into wider use. This machine consists of a central barrel-like drum which encloses a smaller vessel in which the generation takes place. On one side and above is a vessel containing the cyanide which is dissolved in the required amount of water. On the other side is another vessel which contains the acid. The cyanide in solution and the acid are conducted into separate graduated glass cylinders for the dosage and then turned together into the generating vessel. As this is within a larger vessel, the only outlet is through a rubber tube, which conducts the gas under the tended tree. Only a minute or two is required for the generation. Some advantages of such a machine are: accuracy of dosage, economy of material cleanliness of manipulation; one man less required in the crew and freedom from acid burns on the tents. Forty-five minutes to one hour is the usual time the tents are left on the trees. This is about the time required for the pulling of a set of tents and making the changes. At the end of this period, the first tent is pulled on to the tree in the adjoining row, and so on through the set. The season for fumigating extends approximately from July 15 to January 1. Fumigating earlier than the middle of July is not advisable because of the danger of injuring the young fruit. Even this date is too early to fumigate for the black scale because it may not be the end of the hatching period. During most seasons it will be the middle of August or the first effecting walnuts are being studied. California walnut growers have in the past been planting their walnut groves with seedling. Now the university is studying the enormous variations in season, productivity, quality of fruit, susceptibility to disease, and other qualities which appear in different strains of the walnut, with the intention of developing improved varieties of the walnut, the use of which will give better and more productive walnut groves to the horticulturists of California. The great and enduring lesson of beauty—that is the most important achievement of the Panama Pacific Exposition, and it will result in vast improvement of the cities and towns of California. So declares Professor Eugene Neuhaus of the university. chairman of the western advisory committee for fine arts and member of the International Jury of Art, in the book which he has just published on The Art of the Exposition. The interpretation of the architecture, sculpture, mural painting, landscape gardening, color and illuminations of the exposition which Prof. Neuhaus has set down in this book he is to develop in greater detail in eighteen illustrated evening lecturers in the summer session of the university, from June 21 to July 31. Prof. Neuhaus pokes a little fun at the misconception which prevails in some parts of the United States that the West has only very recently emerged from a state of semi-civilization, imminent to the finer things of life. He declares the buildings of the exposition have all the big essential qualities that are possessed only in its noblest expression. He says the fundamental laws of balance, harmony and unity, have been uniformly and persistently applied through the seriously designed main body of the ex- COMMISSION OF IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING Professional bunco men are very much in evidence in California, particularly in San Francisco and the bay counties, since the opening of the exposition, judging from the numerous complaints received at headquarters of the commission from unsophisticated foreigners who have been fleeced out of their savings by bunco artists. Because of their ignorance of the language and the laws and customs of the country, the poor immigrants are the especial prey of the bunco men, who are confining their work almost exclusively to the foreigners who have recently arrived in California. In Sacramento county alone Italian immigrants have been defrauded out of approximately $8,000 by bunco men within the past year, according to reports made to the commission by the police authorities. Scarcely a day passes that does not bring complaints of similar outrages in San Francisco and bay cities. All sorts of clever schemes are used by the bunco men to separate the immigrant from his money. Among the most common games worked by the bunco artist are what is known as the years Professor of plant pathology and Bacteriology in The Virginia Experiment Station. The physiological problems of fruits and vegetables, their diseases, and hygiene for the plant have been the subject of a large number of important scientific papers published by Professor Reed since his graduation from the University of Michigan in 1903. In 1907 he won the degree of Ph.D. at the University of Missouri, after receiving special training in botany and organic chemistry and at the same time serving as acting professor of botany there. He was scientist in soil fertility investigations of the Bureau of soils of the United States department of agriculture from 1906 to 1908. In 1913 he went to the Zoological Station at Naples, Italy, to investigate problems in plant physiology. He spent the next year in Strassburg, Germany, pursuing investigations in physiological chemistry under Hoffmeister. Among the sixty or more scientific papers which Professor Reed has published are numerous contributions to knowledge and to successful agricultural practice in such subjects as the chemical problems of health and disease in plants, tomato blight, the clubroot disease of the cabbage root, foliage diseases of the apple, factors which favor injury from spraying, the control of the cedar rust of apples, premature blossoming of the apple, induced by black rot, and the planting and care of shade trees. Professor Reed is to share the important researches being carried on at the station at Riverside, by a large staff of scientists, headed by Dean H. J. Webber. Already the station has demonstrated the great value of growing lefimous cover crops in citrus groves; has demonstrated by eight years of experiment with fertilizers for citrus groves what the comparative value is of the different fertilizers commonly used; and has planted about 250 different varieties of citrus fruits. Important experiments are being made, also in the breeding of new citrus varieties by hybridization. An experiment in progress in a 29 year old grove in Riverside includes a trial of 98 different treatments for retaining old citrus groves in good productive condition and preventing the development of mottle leaf. This work will throw much light on problems of soil treatment, water penetration, the availability of plant food, etc. Another interesting experiment is in some parts of the United States that the West has only very recently emerged from a state of semi-civilization, inimical to the finer things of life. He declares the buildings of the exposition have all the big essential qualities that are possessed only in its noblest expression. He says the fundamental laws of balance, harmony and unity, have been uniformly and persistently applied through the seriously designed main body of the exposition. The fine arts palace of which Bernard Maybeck was the architect, Prof. Neuhaus characterizes as of a supreme beauty, and as based on the realization of a dream of true artistic conception. Sculpture Mr. Neuhaus regards as the most important of all the arts for an exposition, because the most human. He declares that seldom before have sculpture and architect so successfully worked together as at this exposition. He predicts a great future for sculpture in America, where our temperament demands it. The extraordinarily successful use of color and wonderful achievements in lighting he regards as two of the most fruitful contributions of the exposition. In his discussion of the mural paintings, he particularly praises the wonderful Brangwyn murals in the Court of Abundance, declaring that it evidently gave the artist the utmost pleasure to paint them. He characterizes them as great paintings in a technical sense. That the exposition will be far-reaching in its demonstration of the actual commercial value of artistic assets is predicted by Prof. Neuhaus. He declares the exposition really a city planning exposition of the first order, and urges application of the great principles displayed there in the development of every city and town in California. BUENA PARK WILL HAVE 1000 ACRES OF BEANS A. Nelson, the lumber, mill and grain man, of Buena Park, will soon receive from New York a large up-to-date bean cleaner with a capacity of two carloads a day. It will be operated with a fifteen horsepower electric motor. There will be a large bean crop on the mesa this year in the Buena Park district. The estimated acreage is between 1000 and 1200. One grower alone, C. L. McComber has over 300 acres in beans. Ingrants have been distributed out of approximately $8,000 by bunco men within the past year, according to reports made to the commission by the police authorities. Scarcely a day passes that does not bring complaints of similar outrages in San Francisco and bay cities. All sorts of clever schemes are used by the bunco men to separate the immigrant from his money. Among the most common games worked by the bunco artist are what is known as the exchange of currency and the placing your money in a box with mine. The crooks who practice these skin games are usually of the same nationality as the intended victim or at least speak their language. The unsuspecting immigrant naturally thinks he can trust one of his own countrymen and with little persuasion is induced to trust his money with these smooth talking crooks, only to find out later that he has been swindled out of his earnings of a life time. Because of the increasing number of bunco men plying their craft in California, the Commission on Immigration and Housing warns all foreigners to beware of the stranger who, in the guise of a friend, seeks to interest them in any schemes whereby they will have to part with their money. Immigrants are warned not to so part with their money without first consulting with some reputable citizen of their own nationality, reporting the matter to the police department, conferring with the Consul General of their native country or to the commission at room 215 Underwood building, 525 Market street, San Francisco. Placentia has organized a new fire department which expects to safeguard that town from conflagrations in the future. L. B. Spicer and family left Sunday for Iola, Kansas, where they will make their home in the future. A. Nelson, the lumber, mill and grain man, of Buena Park, will soon receive from New York a large up-to-date bean cleaner with a capacity of two carloads a day. It will be operated with a fifteen horsepower electric motor. There will be a large bean crop on the mesa this year in the Buena Park district. The estimated acreage is between 1000 and 1200. One grower alone, C. L. McComber has over 300 acres in beans. A. Nelson, shipper, marketed twenty-five carloads of beans last year and it is said he will ship at least forty cars this year. The crop is mostly of the black eye variety, which the growers sell at about 3 3-4 cents a pound, at a good profit. IN GOOD SHAPE The Santa Ana canyon road is now in excellent shape. The grading at the Olive end is practically completed, and automobiles have no difficulty in getting by. The highway commission is planning to do the paving on this canyon road at the same time that Riverside is improving the upper end. Riverside has been anxious to get started; but has been held back on account of a disagreement with Tom Sculley over right of way. The Riversiders propose to avoid a steep hill by going around what is known as Spoon hill. The grade will be reduced. To make this change, however, Sculley's barley field will have to be passed through. He is asking $6,000 for a right of way, and the Riverside people are not willing to pay that price. It will take a condemnation suit to settle the matter. When the right of way is settled Riverside will start work. A. H. Garland, who rode a motorcycle while under the influence of liquor, was handed a 10-day jail sentence by Justice Cox. "MAYER" Martha Washington Comfort Shoes for Women made in high and low styles--$2 to $3.50 We also carry in stock a great many other styles of shoes from the "cheapest that's good to the best that's made," at prices that are sure to appeal to the pocket book. DON'T FORGET Our Repair Department. With our latest improved machinery we are able to turn out the very best of repairing and at prices that cannot be equaled in the city. 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