anaheim-gazette 1915-12-09

GROWTH OF COLLEGE HAS BEEN RAPID EXPENDITURE ON AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION IN CALIF. HAS DOUBLED IN PAST DECADE DESIRE TO IMPROVE OUTDOOR CONDITIONS OF SCHOOLS IS GROWING That California has doubled while Kansas and New York have nearly trebled their expenditure on agricultural education and research in the past decade is pointed out in an article on the problems for the agricultural college, by Dean B. T. Galloway of the New York college of agriculture at Cornell University. "The growth of the colleges," says Dean Galloway, "has been especially rapid during the past decade, and particularly during this period the increase in funds made available for agriculture by the federal government in its work is about 50 per cent. California recognized agriculture to the extent of increasing her appropriations about 99 per cent; Ohio about 127 per cent; Kansas 179 per cent; and New York 181 per cent. The enrollment in the Farmers Short Courses which have just closed at the University farm was 181. There were 76 general agricultural students, 48 dairy manufacture students, 35 horticulture students; and 23 poultry husbandry students. The meetings held each Wednesday As soon as the pickling process is finished the olives are placed in a 3 per cent brine for several days until they are well salted. They are then heated to about 180 degrees F. In this brine and placed in cans or bottles without any liquid. The cans or bottles are then sealed and heated to 212 degrees F. for half an hour. Olives treated in this way have kept perfectly for a year and were equal in every way to similar olives canned in liquid in the usual way. There was no shrinking, wrinkling, softening, nor change of color. The absence of brine makes the handling of the olives by the consumer much pleasanter and more convenient. In shipping there would also be a considerable saving in freight. The saving in weight with cans (not counting packing cases was found to be 31.5 per cent and with bottles 16.6 per cent. CITRUS FRUIT LOSSES If the grower of citrus fruits cannot deliver his product at the market in sound, attractive condition the money and labor invested in his orchard are largely, if not entirely, wasted. This is the conclusion reached by investigators of the department of agriculture in a new Farmers' bulletin, No. 696. Too many growers, points out the author of this bulletin, fail to realize that under modern conditions of handling, of long-distance shipment, and of selling a perishable commodity such as citrus fruits, the marketing of fruit in sound condition is as essential to success as its production. It is estimated that more than 95 per cent of the decay of citrus fruits occurring on arrival at the market and during the first 10 days after arrival are due to attacks of fungi resulting from mechanical injuries or breaks in the skin. Blue mould decay in oranges, grapefruit, lemons and other tracting widescale oil producing ner in which of the state men being alded by aggregation to s year, when they fully undertook Union will be its oil resource. UNCLE SAM The experts department of been conducting leaders in train in tilling the soil will reach dir girls who have the work. The which all the ested. Country interrelated th parted may be all Americans, land, so difficult World, is ma de national policy of Department is Speakers at th on the subject in these broad structure, in g ence, and cann farming. The duced to practi on, a fact that tractic. Whil lation tends to that the inter- and urban com more intimate. to sustain him a valuable res ome. Among the o Washington th ture was one of lished, and it is edge its constanness of the ev The enrollment in the Farmers Short Courses which have just closed at the University farm was 181. There were 76 general agricultural students, 48 dairy manufacture students, 35 horticulture students; and 23 poultry husbandry students. The meetings held each Wednesday evening were a unique feature of the short courses this year. The students of each of the four courses met in separate rooms at 7:30 for an hour's discussion; afterwards they all met together in the assembly room for some form of entertainment and social time, arranged by the executive committee. The executive committee had complete charge of all general affairs of the short course students, arranged for the general meetings, and supplied refreshments. Its officers served as the officers for the entire short course student body when assembled together. The officers of the various groups were as follows: Executive committee: President, Leon Martin, Berkeley; vice president, Harry Mortensen, Sulsu; secretary, Mrs. A. L. Elkins, San Francisco; treasurer, Geo. F. Wagner, Inyokern. Other committeeemen: Robert F. Briggs, Cupertino; H. G. Stevenson, Jr., Menlo Park; Rufus C. Steele, Swanton; Zack Hargis, Tulare; V. C. Bryant, Berkeley. General agriculture students: president, C. S. Newberry, Los Angeles; secretary, treasurer, H. G. Stevenson, Jr., Menlo Park. Dairy manufacture students: president, H. H. Sawyer, Gilroy; vice-president, Luke P. Hahn, Arroya Grande; secretary, Monica T. Alexander, Berkeley; treasurer, Martin Z. Foley, Rutherford. Horticulture students: president, Robert F. Briggs, Cupertino secretary, treasurer, George F. Wagner, Inyokern. Poultry husbandry students: president, Harry Mortensen, Sulsu; vice-president, Lewis H. Sweetser, San Francisco; secretary, treasurer, Mrs. W. H. Fenneman, Coalinga. Any rural community in California may obtain expert advice on all lines of civic improvement from the division of landscape gardening and floriculture of the college of agriculture. Especially is the staff glad to aid with the more immediate problems involving the design and embellishment of recognition agriculture to the extent of increasing her appropriations about 99 per cent; Ohio about 127 per cent; Kansas 179 per cent; and New York 181 per cent. It is estimated that more than 95 per cent of the decay of citrus fruits occurring on arrival at the market and during the first 10 days after arrival are due to attacks of fungi resulting from mechanical injuries or breaks in the skin. Blue mould decay in oranges, grapefruit, lemons and other citrus fruits is frequently so serious as to demoralize the market. There is not only the direct loss of fruit through decay, but the indirect losses due (1) to depreciation in prices for fruit actually sound, (2) to a reputation for poor keeping quality, and (3) to the proportionately high overhead expense of handling a perishable product which develops great waste and spoilage in transit and after arrival at the market. Another kind of decay due to attacks of fungi is that known stem end rot. The losses from this are most severe after a holding period of 10 days or 2 weeks. Diplodia rot, which closely resembles stem-end decay is one of the most serious diseases of citrus fruits in Porto Rico and Cuba. The prevention of losses due to stem end decay and diseases of a similar nature depends on proper orchard, cultural and sanitation practices. Losses from stem end rot, which develops very slowly in temperatures below 45 to 50 deg. F., can be minimized by prompt cooling, by transporting the fruit under low temperatures, and by holding it on the market at low temperatures as far as practicable. Extensive investigations and practical commercial experience have conclusively demonstrated that citrus fruits can be handled with sufficient care to prevent injury and to deliver the fruit on the market in sound condition, even under adverse climatic surroundings. The elimination of losses due to blue mold decay and other diseases, it is stated, is not a matter of attention to one or a few details of the handling problem, but of exercising in all operations the utmost care consistent with commercial work. It necessitates through organization of labor and the most careful inspection of work, both in the field and at the packing house. The bulletin above referred to, which treats in an exhaustive manner of the different operations of picking, hauling, washing, drying, and packing forms recognized agriculture to the extent of increasing her appropriations about 99 per cent; Ohio about 127 per cent; Kansas 179 per cent; and New York 181 per cent. It is estimated that more than 95 per cent of the decay of citrus fruits occurring on arrival at the market and during the first 10 days after arrival are due to attacks of fungi resulting from mechanical injuries or breaks in the skin. Blue mould decay in oranges, grapefruit, lemons and other citrus fruits is frequently so serious as to demoralize the market. There is not only the direct loss of fruit through decay, but the indirect losses due (1) to depreciation in prices for fruit actually sound, (2) to a reputation for poor keeping quality, and (3) to the proportionately high overhead expense of handling a perishable product which develops great waste and spoilage in transit and after arrival at the market. Another kind of decay due to attacks of fungi is that known stem end rot. The losses from this are most severe after a holding period of 10 days or 2 weeks. Diplodia rot, which closely resembles stem-end decay is one of the most serious diseases of citrus fruits in Porto Rico and Cuba. The prevention of losses due to stem end decay and diseases of a similar nature depends on proper orchard, cultural and sanitation practices. Losses from stem end rot, which develops very slowly in temperatures below 45 to 50 deg. F., can be minimized by prompt cooling, by transporting the fruit under low temperatures, and by holding it on the market at low temperatures as far as practicable. Extensive investigations and practical commercial experience have conclusively demonstrated that citrus fruits can be handled with sufficient care to prevent injury and to deliver the fruit on the market in sound condition, even under adverse climatic surroundings. The elimination of losses due to blue mold decay and other diseases, it is stated, is not a matter of attention to one or a few details of the handling problem, but of exercising in all operations the utmost care consistent with commercial work. It necessitates through organization of labor and the most careful inspection of work, both in the field and at the packing house. The bulletin above referred to, which treats in an exhaustive manner of the different operations of picking, hauling, washing, drying, and packaging forms recognized agriculture to the extent of increasing her appropriations about 99 per cent; Ohio about 127 per cent; Kansas 179 per cent; and New York 181 per cent. It is estimated that more than 95 per cent of the decay of citrus fruits occurring on arrival at the market and during the first 10 days after arrival are due to attacks of fungi resulting from mechanical injuries or breaks in the skin. Blue mould decay in oranges, grapefruit, lemons and other citrus fruits is frequently so serious as to demoralize the market. There is not only the direct loss of fruit through decay, but the indirect losses due (1) to depreciation in prices for fruit actually sound, (2) to a reputation for poor keeping quality, and (3) to the proportionately high overhead expense of handling a perishable product which develops great waste and spoilage in transit and after arrival at the market. Another kind of decay due to attacks of fungi is that known stem end rot.| The losses from this are most severe after a holding period of 10 days or 2 weeks. Diplodia rot, which closely resembles stem-end decay is one of the most serious diseases of citrus fruits in Porto Rico and Cuba. The prevention of losses due to stem end decay and diseases of a similar nature depends on proper orchard, cultural and sanitation practices. Losses from stem end rot, which develops very slowly in temperatures below 45 to 50 deg. F., can be minimized by prompt cooling, by transporting the fruit under low temperatures, and by holding it on the market at low temperatures as far as practicable. Extensive investigations and practical commercial experience have conclusively demonstrated that citrus fruits can be handled with sufficient care to prevent injury and to deliver the fruit on the market in sound condition, even under adverse climatic surroundings. The elimination of losses due to blue mold decay and other diseases, it is stated, is not a matter of attention to one or a few details of the handling problem, but of exercising in all operations the utmost care consistent with commercial work. It necessitates through organization of labor and the most careful inspection of work, both in the field and at the packing house. The bulletin above referred to, which treats in an exhaustive manner of the different operations of picking, hauling, washing, drying,and packing forms recognized agriculture to the extent of increasing her appropriations about 99 per cent; Ohio about 127 per cent; Kansas 179 per cent; and New York 181 per cent. It is estimated that more than 95 per cent of the decay of citrus fruits occurring on arrival at the market and during the first 10 days after arrival are due to attacks of fungi resulting from mechanical injuries or breaks in the skin. Blue mould decay in oranges，grapefruit，lemons和other citrus fruits is frequently so serious as to demoralize the market. There is not only the direct loss of fruit through decay，but the indirect losses due (1) to depreciation in prices for fruit actually sound，(2) to a reputation for poor keeping quality，and (3) to the proportionately high overhead expense of handling a perishable product which develops great waste and spoilage in transit and after arrival at the market. Another kind of decay due to attacks of fungi is that known stem end rot.| The losses from this are most severe after a holding period of 10 days or 2 weeks. Diplodia rot，which closely resembles stem-end decay is one of the most serious diseases of citrus fruits in Porto Rico and Cuba. The prevention of losses due to stem end decay and diseases of a similar nature depends on proper orchard，cultural and sanitation practices. Losses from stem end rot，which develops very slowly in temperatures below 45 to 50 deg. F., can be minimized by prompt cooling，by transporting the fruit under low temperatures，and by holding it on the market at low temperatures as far as practicable. Extensive investigations and practical commercial experience have conclusively demonstrated that citrus fruits can be handled with sufficient care to prevent injury and to deliver the fruit on the market in sound condition，even under adverse climatic surroundings. The elimination of losses due to blue mold decay and other diseases，it is stated，is not a matter of attention to one or a few details of the handling problem，but of exercising in all operations the utmost care consistent with commercial work. It necessitates through organization of labor and the most careful inspection of work，both in the field and at the packing house. The bulletin above referred to，which treats in an exhaustive manner of the different operations of picking，hauling，washing,drying,and packing forms recognized agriculture to the extent of increasing her appropriations about 99 per cent; Ohio about 127 per cent; Kansas 179 per cent; and New York 181 per cent. It is estimated that more than 95 percent of the decay of citrus fruits occurring on arrival at the market and during the first 10 days after arrival are due to attacks of fungi resulting from mechanical injuries or breaks in the skin. Blue mould decay in oranges，grapefruit，lemons和other citrus fruits is frequently so serious as to demoralize the market. There is not only the direct loss of fruit through decay，but the indirect losses due (1) to depreciation in prices for fruit actually sound，(2) to a reputation for poor keeping quality，and (3) to the proportionately high overhead expense of handling a perishable product which develops great waste and spoilage in transit and after arrival at the market. Another kind of decay due to attacks of fungi is that known stem end rot.| The losses from this are most severe after a holding period of 10 days or 2 weeks. Diplodia rot，which closely resembles stem-end decay is one of the most serious diseases of citrus fruits in Porto Rico and Cuba. The prevention of losses due to stem end decay and diseases of a similar nature depends on proper orchard，cultural and sanitation practices. Losses from stem end rot，which develops very slowly in temperatures below 45 to 50 deg. F., can be minimized by prompt cooling，by transporting the fruit under low temperatures，and by holding it on the market at low temperatures as far as practicable. Extensive investigations and practical commercial experience have conclusively demonstrated that citrus fruits can be handled with sufficient care to prevent injury and to deliver the fruit on the market in sound condition，even under adverse climatic surroundings. The elimination of losses due to blue mold decay and other diseases，it is stated，is not a matter of attention to one or a few details of the handling problem，but of exercising in all operations the utmost care consistent with commercial work. It necessitates through organization of labor and the most careful inspection of work，both in the field and at the packing house. 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Sweetser, San Francisco; secretary, treasurer, Mrs. W. H. Fenneman, Coalinga. Any rural community in California may obtain expert advice on all lines of civic improvement from the division of landscape gardening and floriculture of the college of agriculture. Especially is the staff glad to aid with the more immediate problems involving the design and embellishment of school grounds, playgrounds, town parks, and the planting and care of shade trees on streets or highways. It is the policy of the division to work with or through school boards or any civic or improvement organization interested in public betterment. The requests of rural communities will be given preference and the service will be confined strictly to public enterprises. The facilities available make it impossible to do all the work requested and the division does not promise to do more than can be well done. There must be definite assurance of the service being put to practical purpose. Lectures upon various phases of civic improvement will be given by members of the staff. The continually increasing number of requests coming to the division for assistance in the designing and planting of school grounds clearly indicates a growing desire to improve the outdoor conditions of the school homes where the children spend so much of their time, especially at an age when surroundings count in the upbuilding of the mental, moral, and physical fiber of the child. Tests by the division of viticulture of the university extending over a year have shown that ripe pickled olives may be canned or bottled without brine. Conservation of natural resources properly received the stamp of public approval some years ago, and the word conservation then came to be used as the excuse for many schemes having little or no relation to the use and development of our natural resources. It became the fashion to sweepingly condemn all sorts of large operations and accuse the operators of ruthlessly despoiling and wasting the natural resources. The oil business of California was, at the time of this public agitation, in the midst of a great boom and of course did not escape condemnation of well meaning but scantily informed enthusiasts. The unanimous passage of the law placing the regulation of drilling of oil and gas wells under the state mining bureau, and more especially its subsequent wide approval among oil men, serves as proof that Californians are fully alive to the importance of protecting their oil deposits from waste. If the law served no other purpose than to merely relieve the operators of unjust public suspicion it would be worth while. The law follows an entirely new plan and is at- stated, is not a matter of attention to one or a few details of the handling problem, but of exercising in all operations the utmost care consistent with commercial work. It necessitates through organization of labor and the most careful inspection of work, both in the field and at the packing house. The bulletin above referred to, which treats in an exhaustive manner of the different operations of picking, hauling, washing, drying, and packing the fruit, may be had free upon application to the division of publications, U.S. department of agriculture, at Washington. SAVING THE OIL That proper lime and an adequately greatly reduce suffered by been out in a late issue of the department's ures for the loss 1914-15, compiled and published in sent additional editions. For the entire loss last winter we chief factor in tion, to which w struction of 3.2 onies. It is not w the actual loss we estimate, for m omitted to assign death of their be lustant to admit a simple precaution By moderation honey and by th ANAHEIM GAZETTE—THURSDAY, DEC. 9 process is held in a 3 days until there was no softening. keeps the consumer avenient, like a con-The sav-accounting 31.5 per cent. fuits can market on the his or-entirely, on reach-depart-Farmers' out the to realize tons of equipment, commodity marketing is essen- than 95 fruits basket and arrival resulfing breaks by in or- other tracting widespread attention in other oil producing states. From the manner in which the administrative work of the state mining bureau is already being aided by oil men it is no exaggeration to say that within the next year, when the aims of the law become fully understood, no other state in the Union will be taking as much care of its oil resources as is California. UNCLE SAM'S RURAL LESSONS The experts of the United States department of agriculture who have been conducting a convention of state leaders in training youth to take part in tilling the soil to better advantage will reach directly 250,000 boys and girls who have made a beginning in the work. The subject is one in which all the young should be interested. Country and city are so closely interrelated that the knowledge imparted may be regarded as useful to all Americans. The ownership of land, so difficult to attain in the Old World, is made easy for us by a national policy of which the Agricultural Department is a powerful outgrowth. Speakers at the convention enlarged on the subject of improved methods in these broadening lines of rural instruction, in gardening, domestic science, and canning, as well as general farming. These studies can be reduced to practice in the earliest season, a fact that makes them doubly attractive. While it is true that population tends to cities it is equally true that the intercourse between rural and urban communities is more and more intimate. The ability of a man to sustain himself in either place is a valuable resource. Among the cabinet departments in Washington that devoted to agriculture was one of the latest to be established, and it is a pleasure to acknowledge its constant expansion in usefulness of the everyday sort. While it sugar syrup in the fall and spring, starvation can be absolutel avoided. The quantity of stores needed to carry a colony in good condition though the winter will, of course, vary with varying conditions. The average amount reported for the entire country is 31.9 pounds, but the average for Utah alone is given as 49 and for Nevada, and Florida as 40. To be on the safe side, the beekeeper should provide stores largely in excess of what he anticipates the colony will need, for as was pointed out in another article, his real aim is to save bees rather than stores. There is, moreover, nothing to indicate that the stores should be less abundant in the warmer and shorter winters of the South than in the North and West. The reasons for this are not entirely clear; but a study of the average quantity required in each state falls to reveal variations that correspond to differences in climate, except that there is a shorter broodless period in the South. While 3.6 per cent of the colonies perished from starvation, only 0.9 per cent were lost through cold, exposure, and smothering. It must be remembered, however, that, as is explained in Farmers' Bulletin 695, the consumption of stores is greatly increased whenever the bees are forced to protect themselves from the cold by excessive heat production. Insufficient insulation of the hives is, therefore, in all probability, an indirect cause of much loss attributed to starvation. Next to starvation, poor honey and dysentery are responsible for the largest winter losses. In 1914-15, 2.1 per cent of the colonies perished on this account. Like starvation and cold, this factor can be readily eliminated by a little care at the proper time. Honeydew honey is a common cause of dysentery, and whenever this is present in the fall it should be removed. Honey of a different character While it is true that population tends to cities it is equally true that the intercourse between rural and urban communities is more and more intimate. The ability of a man to sustain himself in either place is a valuable resource. Among the cabinet departments in Washington that devoted to agriculture was one of the latest to be established, and it is a pleasure to acknowledge its constant expansion in usefulness of the everyday sort. While it keeps in touch with sound scientific principles it does not fire over the heads of the men with the hoe, nor of boys and girls who find profit and recreation in tending a garden patch. The rural boy or girl of today is the farmer of tomorrow, though starting in a long way ahead of where his father began. What comes annually now from the soil in the United States has passed the ten billion dollar mark. It is a good deal of money to divide up among workers. It accounts for the great balance of trade in our favor, and for prospects of continued prosperity. Nothing sensational was connected with the convention of agricultural experts, but it helped fill an important place in the economic progress of the times. COFFEE SUBSTITUTES LOW IN FOOD VALUE Coffee substitutes have almost no nutritive value, according to Prof. M. E. Jaffa, consulting nutrition expert of the California state board of health. Most people think that skimmed milk is a very thin sort of beverage, but Prof. Jaffa says that it takes nine pints of the infusion from a coffee substitute to supply the amount of protein that a single glass of skimmed milk contains. Many false and ridiculous claims for these products are made, such as, "it alds digestion," "soothes and quietes worn and wasted nerves, and as a complexion beautifier cannot be equaled," "it tones the blood, and by its daily use will impart to the skin a healthy glow of youth." Prof. Jaffa says that such claims are better suited to a patent medicine than to a food or drink. In his report to the state board of health, professor Jaffa states further that from the nutritive standpoint alone, these coffee substitutes depend more for their food value upon the all probability, an indirect cause of much loss attributed to starvation. Next to starvation, poor honey and dysentery are responsible for the largest winter losses. In 1914-15, 2.1 per cent of the colonies perished on this account. Like starvation and cold, this factor can be readily eliminated by a little care at the proper time. Honeydew honey is a common cause of dysentery, and whenever this is present in the fall it should be removed. Honey of a different character or sugar airup may be substituted. Proper insulation will lessen the amount of these stores that must be provided, but it is hardly possible for the beekeeper to be too lavish in this respect. As has been pointed out it is almost impossible to give the bees too much protection, and it is very rare that they are given enough. In the North the percentage of colonies which receive some form of protection is very high, but farther South the protection is only occasional, and then almost always insufficient. As a result winter loses in the Southeastern and South Central states range from 5 to 15 per cent, though the averages for Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri are all well over 20 per cent, while in the important honey states of Texas, Colorado, Utah and California the averages run from 7 to slightly over 10 per cent. In the opinion of bee specialists, it would be quite possible to reduce winter losses to less than 1 per cent by providing abundant stores and abundant insulation. The contrast between this goal and the actual conditions as reported in Bulletin 235 is striking. OUR GREAT PHOSPHATE RESERE A grave problem for the farmer is to discover the needs of his depleted or unfavorably proportioned soil. Its greatest need may be phosphoric acid, one of the three substances that are most necessary in maintaining fertility, the other two being nitrogen and potash. Phosphoric acid for use in fertilizers has been supplied for many years in part by the phosphates of Florida and Tennessee and from islands in the Pacific ocean. These deposits can not always supply the demand, and there fore the recent discovery that the Rocky Mountains contain the largest known area of phosphate rock in the world is of vital interest to future generations, if not to as a complexion beautifier cannot be equaled," it tones the blood, and by its daily use will impart to the skin a healthy glow of youth." Prof. Jaffa says that such claims are better suited to a patent medicine than to a food or drink. In his report to the state board of health, professor Jaffa states further that from the nutritive standpoint alone, these coffee substitutes depend more for their food value upon the milk, cream and sugar used with them than upon their own soluble constituents. There is probably no harm to be derived from the use of coffee substitutes, but it is certain that the claims made for them are extravagent to an extreme degree. STARVATION OF BEES Lack of Supplies Found to be Chief Factor in Destruction of Colonies in the Winter That proper insulation of the hives and an adequate supply of stores will greatly reduce the winter losses now suffered by beekeepers was pointed out in a late issue of the News Letter of the department of agriculture. Figures for the losses in the winter of 1914-15, compiled by the department and published in Bulletin 328, now present additional evidence on this point. For the entire country the average loss last winter was 12.6 per cent. The chief factor in this total was starvation, to which was attributed the destruction of 3.2 per cent of the colonies. It is not unlikely, however, that the actual loss was greater than this estimate, for many beekeepers who omitted to assign any reason for the death of their bees were probably reluctant to admit that their neglect of a simple precaution was responsible. By moderation in removing surplus honey and by the proper feeding of Phosphoric acid for use in fertilizers has been supplied for many years in part by the phosphates of Florida and Tennessee and from islands in the Pacific ocean. These deposits can not always supply the demand, and there fore the recent discovery that the Rocky Mountains contain the largest known area of phosphate rock in the world is of vital interest to future generations. If not to the present one. Albert Richter claims to be the original discoverer of the western phosphate deposits, because he recognized rock phosphate in Cache county, Utah, in 1889 and located claims on it. These phosphate deposits are said to have been independently discovered in 1897 by R. A. Ridcock in Rich county, Utah, in old diggings in black rock that he mistook for gold prospects. A large sample analyzed in 1899, however, proved to be high grade phosphate rock. In 1908, on recommendation of the geological survey, the secretary of the interior withdrew from entry 4,500,000 acres of public lands in Idaho, Utah and Wyoming, believed to be valuable for phosphate, and this phosphate withdrawal was continued by the president under the act of June 25, 1910. In 1909 and succeeding years these phosphate deposits were systematically examined by the survey, and in 1910 phosphate rock was discovered in Montana near Melrose. On January 1, 1915, the total area of phosphate lands in Montana, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho withdrawn from entry was 2,713,155 acres. This phosphate reserve is larger than any similar area in the United States; it is, indeed, the largest area of phosphate rock yet recognized in the world. 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