anaheim-gazette 1915-11-18

UNIVERSITY'S ASSETS AND INCOME SIXTEEN AND HALF MILLION DOLLARS IS VALUE OF BUILDINGS AND ENDOWMENTS EXPERIMENT STATION GIVES SOME PERTINENT ADVICE RELATIVE TO THE INDUSTRY TRIOUS HEN That the expenditures of the University of California for the last year—the year ending June 30, 1915—were $2,727,616.84 is shown by the annual report of the auditors of the university, McLaren, Goode and company, on the university's accounts as kept in the office of Comptroller Ralph P. Merritt. This customary annual report has just been rendered to the university. The year's income of the university was $2,784,024.28. Sixty per cent of this come from the state of California. That is to say, the state provided $1,685,387.71. The state of Illinois provides half as much again per annum for the University of Illinois, which receives about eight hundred thousand dollars a year more from the state than does the University of California, and a total registration for last year, including the summer session, smaller by five thousand than the total registration of the University of California. Issued by the university, obtainable free by writing to the college of agriculture at Berkeley. Other useful home-made poultry yard devices are described also, such as dry mash hoppers which will prevent waste of chicken feed, self-feeding grit or shell hoppers, mash hoppers especially for chicks, catching coops for transferring large numbers of chickens from pen to pen, devices to be used in killing and dry picking fowls, crates in which birds are fattened for the market, supply cans to be filled once a week, to save labor at recurring feedings and to aid in keeping records of the feed consumption per pen or flock; a cabinet in which 2000 eggs (being saved for the incubator) can be turned daily simply by revolving the table on its axle, devices for marking eggs and chickens in working toward improvement of the heredity of the flock, and an electric candler for candling market eggs or testing hatching eggs during incubation. The problem of how to catch a hen has also been solved by the university. It is as a rule very difficult to get close enough to a fowl, especially one of the more active and nervous breeds, to pick her up with one's hands. It generally happens that when one really wants to catch a certain fowl, she simply won't let one get within arm's length. With the catching hook, one can slip up close enough with much less wear and tear on both attendant and fowl. The book declares that where used with normal care not to close the hook too tightly nor to jerk the fowl too suddenly, such catching hook is almost indispensable in a poultry yard, and particularly valuable for removing from a pen any sick fowl, which move all of the soft mudhole. The bottom should be filled with coarse gravel so as to prevent any furry of water. Gravel is for filling the old metal is not available, used at hand, tamping it into layers. If poult little gravel or sand which should be made than the adjoining re-beat treatment of a keep the drainage l That is to say, the state provided $1,685,387.71. The state of Illinois provides half as much again per annum for the University of Illinois, which receives about eight hundred thousand dollars a year more from the state than does the University of California, and a total registration for last year, including the summer session, smaller by five thousand than the total registration of the University of California. Of the forty per cent of last year's income of the university which came from other sources other than the state, the origin was as follows: the United States, to aid work in agriculture and mechanic arts, $90,000; students' fees (including summer session, medical school and laboratory fees, and the tuition fees paid by non residents—tuition, however, being free to all residents of California) $252,183; income from investments, $236,854; sales of agricultural produce, etc., $199,273; hospitals and clinics, $53,075; income from the Kearny ranch, $40,000; gifts for current use, $70,383; gifts for buildings and improvements, $9,249; gifts for endowments, $147,611. Of the expenditures, $438,575 was for new buildings and improvements, including the purchase of a new site for the citrus experiment station at Riverside, work on a new class room and library building and a new dormitory building at the farm at Davis, and various improvements on the campus at Berkeley. The assets of the university are now approximately sixteen and a half millions, of which $5,591,836 represents endowment funds while $10,618,048 includes the lands and buildings of the Berkeley campus, the libraries, museums, and scientific and other equipment; the Lick Observatory; the Affiliated colleges, the San Francisco Institute of Art, and the Wilmerding Trades school, all in San Francisco; the Scripps Institution for biological research, at La Jolla, near San Diego; the Kearny ranch near Fresno, the Imperial Valley, Santa Monica, and Chico agricultural and forestry experiment stations, the laboratory of plant pathology at Whittier, the Los Angeles medical department, the university farm at Davis, and all the other varied instruments of the great work of higher and popular education, scientific research, and agricultural betterment which the university is carrying on throughout the whole of California. ASHES AS A FERTILIZER The farmer who burns wood for heating and cooking should carefully store the ashes and not permit them to leach, as they have a peculiar fertilizing value. They not only contain potash and phosphoric acid in appreciable amounts, but also contain magnesia and lime, and when applied to the land they also act indirectly to increase the available nitrogen content of organic matter in the soil. Ordinary house ashes contain on the average about 8 or 9 per cent of potash and 2 per cent phosphoric acid. Investigators have considered that there is enough potash and phosphoric acid in a bushel of ashes to make it worth 20 or 25 cents. Besides that, some 10 or 15 cents additional might be allowed for the alkali power of the ashes. This power is that which enable ashes to rot weeds and to ferment peat. The potash content of ashes will be lost if they are permitted to leach, and care should be taken to store them in a dry place. Wood ashes may be profitably applied as a top dressing to grass land and to pastures, where they will encourage the growth of clover and the better kinds of grasses, which will then crowd out inferior kinds and weeds. Wood ashes also may be used for corn and roots. Because of their lime content they are not so good for potatoes, although sometimes used for this crop. Ashes from hardwood (deciduous trees) are richer in both phosphorus and potash than those from pines and other softwoods (conifers). The ashes of twigs (faggots, for example) are worth more for agricultural purposes than the ashes of heartwood taken from the middle of an old tree. In general, the smaller and younger the wood burned the better-ashes. The ashes of coal do not contain enough simply won't let one get within arm's length. With the catching hook, one can slip up close enough with much less wear and tear on both attendant and fowl. The book declares that where used with normal care not to close the hook too tightly nor to jerk the fowl too suddenly, such catching hook is almost indispensable in a poultry yard, and particularly valuable for removing from a pen any sick fowl, which might soon spread disease through the flock. Don't try to fill a first draining out that moving the soft mud it with large stones; done there will soon instead of one. Don't hole with sods or which absorb water. On an earth or gravel treated with the afraid of dragging it a rainy spell. If or gravel be spread face when it has been rain and then worked a liberal use of he road can be much in to carry a surprising for a short time. In contrast to the road, the sand road during wet weather anything that will movement of the sand of value. As long damp, the surface tillary water acts as the separate grains All efforts should be directed toward prevent places from drying some binder. The area nishes a positive blight the best and most important. The addition material such as sturgeon brush, or pline ue and, when spread covered with a thin layered to work into make an almost impress fairly good for a tilt way to treat a bad clay or a sand road fore it gets bad. In to small injuries we prolong attention pairs to serious dues. HEN INDUSTRY HELPED BY BREEDING PROCESS Only Eggs From Best Layers Should Be used for Hatching Purposes Half an egg a day is the average to which every industrious and self-respecting hen ought to attain, according to the University of California. Trap nests are the means the university now recommends for hastening the coming of the golden age when the boarder hen shall be exterminated and every hen shall average at least 180 eggs per annum. This home made trap nest closes when a hen enters to lay an egg. Thus accurate record can be kept of the production of individual hens. Hence the poultry raiser can incubate only eggs from hens with a high record as egg producers, mated with well grown sturdy roosters whose mothers were naturally prolific layers. The result of such selection on sound eugenic principles is rapid improvement of the natural laying capacity of the flock. The trap nest makes it easy, also, to discover and eliminate the hen which does not earn her own keep. How every poultry grower may cheaply and easily, with his own hammer and saw make trapnests for his poultry yards is told by J. E. Dougherty, associate professor of poultry husbandry, and W. E. Lloyd, assistant in poultry husbandry at the university farm, in a publication on Practical and Inexpensive poultry appliances, just... BAD SPOTS IN ROADS Temporary repairs to roads are, or at least should be confined to emergency measures. In proportion to the results obtained, temporary work is always expensive and is never justified by ordinary conditions. Unusual conditions, however, often occur to plague the road man. For example, the closing of a main highway to traffic because of construction, repair, or washouts may suddenly throw a heavy traffic for a short time on a little used and probably unimproved byway. Clearly, in such a case temporary expedients are legitimate. The most common troubles met with in a case of this kind are mudholes and ruts if the soil is heavy, and dust and loose sand if the soil is light or sandy. On a clay or gumbo road mudholes usually cause the most trouble. As water is absolutely necessary for the existence of a mud hole, any treatment, whether temporary or permanent in character, must provide for getting rid of the water. The first step is, therefore, to dig a trench to the side and allow the water and mud to drain. If necessary, open up also the side ditches. Furthermore, remove all of the soft mud left in the mudhole. The bottom of the trench should be filled with broken stone or coarse gravel so as to provide a drain to prevent any further accumulation of water. Gravel is the best material for filling the old mudhole. If gravel is not available, use the best earth at hand, tamping it down in 3 or 4 inch layers. If possible, spread a little gravel or sand over the new fill, which should be made slightly higher than the adjoining road surface. The best treatment of all, however, is to keep the drainage in good condition. Thanksgiving Day -excursions between all stations on the Santa Fe On sale Nov. 24-25—Return limit Nov. 29 This means a very low fare to San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego and intermediate points. Phone me Phones Pacific 217; Home 1751 J. H. CLABAUGH, Agent Anaheim, Cal. Good Place to Buy G-O-O-D L-U-M-B-E-R C. GANAHL LUMBER COMPANY Anaheim: : : : : Cal. the year, but occasionally the crop is cut for hay instead of being pastured off. When ready for pasture, dairy cows giving milk are turned into the fields. After they have secured the best of the feed they are turned into a new field and followed by dry cows and young stock. These clean up the field and are inturn transferred to another, the first field being watered and left to mature another crop. In the case of those fields which are cut for hay, after the crop has been put up with a hay loader, dry cows and young stock are utilized to clean up the waste hay before the field is watered. The obvious advantage of this system is that the milch cows are fact that the paraffine base oils are generally composed of the paraffine series of hydrocarbons, while the asphalt base oils are composed mainly of the ethylene and naphthene series. One of the characteristics of the latter two series as compared with the paraffine series is their tendency to disill without decomposition. Consequently no gum will be formed on the cylinder walls and the carbon liberated will be mostly discharged with the exhaust gases. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Julius Fisher et ux to Thomas L. McFadden—Lot 19, block C, Placen- coarse gravel so as to provide a drain to prevent any further accumulation of water. Gravel is the best material for filling the old mudhole. If gravel is not available, use the best earth at hand, tamping it down in 3 or 4 inch layers. If possible, spread a little gravel or sand over the new fill, which should be made slightly higher than the adjoining road surface. The best treatment of all, however, is to keep the drainage in good condition. Sorious mudholes will then rarely develop. Don't try to fill a mudhole without first draining out the water and removing the soft mud. Don't try to fill it with large stones, because if this is done there will soon be two mudholes instead of one. Don't try to fill a mudhole with sods or similar material which absorb water readily. On an earth or gravel road ruts are best treated with the drag. Don't be afraid of dragging too often during a rainy spell. If a thin coat of sand or gravel be spread over the road surface when it has been softened by a rain and then worked in by traffic and a liberal use of he drag, a poor earth road can be much improved and made to carry a surprisingly heavy traffic for a short time. In contrast to the clay or gumbo road, the sand road gives least trouble during wet weather. On sandy roads anything that will prevent the free movement of the sand particles will be of value. As long as the road is damp, the surface tension of the capillary water acts as a binder and holds the separate grains of sand in place. All efforts should, therefore, be directed toward preventing the sandy places from drying out, or to adding some binder. The addition of clay furnishes a positive binder and is really the best and most permanent treatment. The addition of any fibrous material such as straw, spent tan bark sage brush, or pine needles is of value and, when spread on the road and covered with a thin coat of sand or allowed to work into the surface, will make an almost impassable sand road fairly good for a time. But the best way to treat a bad place, whether on a clay or a sand road, is to treat it before it gets bad. Immediate attention to small injuries will prevent later prolonged attention and extensive repairs to serious damages. ALFALFA PASTURES MORE LIGHT ON CARBON DEPOSITS In a recent issue of an eastern journal, a government gas engine expert, writing on lubrication in general, says regarding carbon and its characteristics says: So much misinformation has been published on this subject that it will be well to look into the conditions resulting in its formation. In the first place, what is ordinarily known as carbon in the cylinders nearly always contains something else in greater or less quantity. Rust and small particles of iron are nearly always found. In automobile motors a large percentage of dust (silica) is generally present. Carbon may exist in a motor oil in two forms: First, as free carbon held in suspension, and second, in combination with hydrogen forming the numerous hydro-carbon compounds which go to make up the oil. The amount of free carbon in a well refined oil is very small, and the objective carbon deposit is generally due to some other factor. Under the intense heat, in the absence of the air necessary for burning, three things may happen: Case 1. The compounds may volatize without decomposition. Case 2 The compounds may decompose with the formation of free carbon and hydrogen. Case 3 The compounds may decompose with the formation of other hydrates of different na- One of the characteristics of the latter two series as compared with the paraffine series is their tendency to distill without decomposition. Consequently no gum will be formed on the cylinder walls and the carbon liberated will be mostly discharged with the exhaust gases. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Julius Fisher et ux to Thomas L. McFadden—Lot 19, block C, Placentia. F. C. Spencer to Charles A. Boese—Part of southwest quarter of northwest quarter of section 8-4-10; $500. Same to same—Lot 18, block 4, Summerfield & Oppenheimer's subdivision; $600. TULIP AND NARCISSUS BULBS Most of the bulbs sold by florists and seedsmen in the United States are imported directly from the Netherlands, the annual importations amounting to nearly a million dollars in value. In order to encourage the growing of Dutch bulbs in this country on a commercial scale and to provide American grown bulbs of superior quality, the department of agriculture established a bulb propagating garden near Bellingham, Wash., where the conditions of soil and climate are similar to those in the Netherlands, for the purpose of conducting experiments in the propagation, cultivation, harvesting, storing, and planting of these bulbs. It appears from the investigations that have been conducted that American-grown tulip bulbs in forcing tests in comparison with imported stock under the same conditions are freer from disease and blossom from five to seven days earlier than the same varieties imported from Europe; also that the flowers produced from these bulbs have longer stems and are of better color and quality than those from foreign grown bulbs Tulip and narcissus bulbs can be propagated and grown successfully along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and in the region of the Great Lakes, but owing to the cost of labor only comparatively limited areas have been planted. The largest areas devoted to the growing of these bulbs on a commercial scale in this country are in Virginia, Rhode Island, Washington, and California. H. M. Oerter has sold the Basket Cash grocery store, in the Dreyfus building to H. C. Neal of Los Angeles. ALFALFA PASTURES A system of rotation pasturing is being adopted in Arizona which, in the opinion of specialist in the U.S. Dept. of agriculture, offers possibilities to alfalfa raisers in the Southwest. Farmers who pasture alfalfa frequently have difficulty in maintaining the stand. This problem is especially acute in the irrigation sections of the southwest, where the season is long and live stock kept on the fields practically the entire year. Continuous close pasturing starves the roots of the plants, and the tramping of the wet soil does further damage. In consequence the stand thins out rapidly, weeds gain a footing, and the productivity of the fields is much decreased. The Arizona system overcomes these difficulties by keeping the live stock off the fields until the alfalfa is sufficiently mature to make hay. The animals are then turned into the fields in large enough numbers to harvest the crop quickly. This system has been developed on many farms in the state, but has been perfected on two farms to an extent which deserves particular attention. The system practiced is fully outlined in Circular 54 of the office of the secretary of the department of agriculture. One of these farms, situated near Phoenix, Arizona, comprises 160 acres of alfalfa of the best type found in the state. It is divided into 8 fields of 20 acres each, all in alfalfa. These fields are pastured at different times during national carbon deposit is generally due to some other factor. Under the intense heat, in the absence of the air necessary for burning, three things may happen: Case 1. The compounds may volatize without decomposition. Case 2 The compounds may decompose with the formation of free carbon and hydrogen. Case 3 The compounds may decompose with the formation of other hydrocarbon compounds of a different nature. The products formed in case 1 give no trouble, as being gaseous, they are carried out with the exhaust, whether burned or not. Of the products formed under case 2, the hydrogen would pass out of the exhaust, whether burned or not. The carbon may be blown out with the gases, or may remain in the cylinder. Whether or not it remained in the cylinder would depend greatly on the condition of the oil film on the cylinder walls. Some oil form a thick viscous, gummy deposit, which retains the carbon formed on its surface and prevents it from being blown out through the exhaust. This gummy deposit gradually gets thicker and harder, eventually forming the hard carbon deposit so well known in cylinders. This gummy deposit is due to the action of the compounds mentioned in case 3. The free carbon liberated in case 2 is light and fluffy, and of itself would no form the hard deposit. Oils made from the southern asphalt base crudes have shown themselves to be much better adapted to motor cylinders, as far as their carbon-forming proclivities are concerned than are the paraffine base Pennsylvania oils. The carbon formed from the latter is, as a rule, extremely hard and clings to the metal surfaces while that from the former is soft and can easily be wiped off any surface that it is deposited on. The explanation of this lies in the All Kinds of Good Things for the THANKSGIVING Dinner —AT— DICKEL'S Cranberries, Nuts, Raisins, Plum Puddings, Mince-Meat, Fancy Apples, Etc. Raisins, Plum Puddings, Mince Meat, Fancy Apples, Etc. IT HITS THE SPOT The Thanksgiving Dinner will not be complete if a good wine isn't served—so permit us to suggest our Sonoma wines and also our Samuels whisky for the guests that arrive early or stay after the dinner. Our prices are close, we have complete stocks, and our splendid grade of QUALITY will satisfy. Your patronage is solicited. 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LOIS REBEKAHS, No. 268—Meet first and third evenings of each month at I. O. O. F. hall. MARIE MAUERHAN, N. G. Cornellia R. Gates, Rec. Sec. SANTA FE TIME TABLE Effective May 12, 1915 NORTH BOUND Leave Anaheim Arrive Los Angeles 6:05 A.M. 7:15 A.M. 7:35 A.M. 9:35 A.M. 11:58 A.M. 3:57 P.M. 4:50 P.M. 5:40 P.M. 6:30 P.M. 9:04 P.M. SOUTH BOUND Lv. Los Angeles Ar. Anaheim 11:59 P.M. 1:08 A.M. 7:00 A.M. 7:50 A.M. 8:10 A.M. 9:06 A.M. 1:15 P.M. 2:02 P.M. 3:00 P.M. 3:42 P.M. 5:25 P.M. 6:14 P.M. SOUTHERN PACIFIC—Going South Leave Anaheim Arrive Anaheim 6:55 a.m. 8:10 a.m. 9:00 a.m. 10:15 a.m. 12:44 p.m. 1:55 p.m. 8:35 p.m. 4:50 p.m. Lv. Los Angeles Arrive Anaheim 8:55 a.m. 10:02 a.m. 10:45 a.m. 11:57 a.m. 4:00 p.m. 5:12 p.m. 5:20 p.m. 6:30 p.m. Dr. M. M. Henderson, Dentist, Suite 1, Mullinix bldg., Anaheim. If you want an estimate on building material of any kind, call up Griffith Lumber company.