anaheim-gazette 1917-04-05

MAKING A LIVING FROM HIS BACK YARD Glendale Man Proves Poultry Can be Raised on Small Area Can a man make a living on a back lot with poultry? This question has been answered in the negative a good many times, but every now and then some man with more enterprise than others rises up and disproves all that the wiseacres have said. John Holloway of Glendale is one of these enterprising persons, and his back yard poultry plant is an example of what common sense and indefatigable industry can accomplish. The lot on which this plant is located is a little larger than the ordinary city lot. The entire lot, including residence, lawn and poultry yards is 75 x 300 feet. Taking out about 50 feet for house and lawn there is left a space about 75 x 250 feet, on which Hr. Holloway keeps year in and years out between 600 and 700 adult fowls, to say nothing of the thousands of youngsters which are hatched every spring. To provide accommodations for so many fowls in such small space requires careful planning, for every inch must be utilized. That each pen and house may be reached with the fewest possible steps and the least waste of ground in passageways, an alley is run straight through the middle of the place. This alley goes directly through the feed and incubator house, connecting with the brooder house and one large laying pen before it reaches the house and then passes at the rear of each of the 20 or more breeding pens. Nests and mash hoppers are arranged along the alley so that the care of the birds may be simplified as Hollway, "because they are so apt to pile up and kill one another." They remain in these cold brooders several of 4 per cent. At the time a contract is made with the settler he pays down 5 per cent of the value of the sale price of the land allotted and 10 per cent of the cost of the improvements. Unless he is prepared to pay half of the purchase price in cash the applicant shall enter into an agreement to make immediate application for a loan from the Federal farm loan act, for 50 percent of the appraised value of the land and 20 per cent of the value of the improvements. The balance on the land shall be paid in amortizing payments extending over a period to be fixed by the board, but not to exceed 40 years, together with interest therefor at 5 per cent. The balance due on the improvements may be amortized for a period not to exceed 20 years. Payment of loans made on livestock and improvements shall be made in a period not to exceed 10 years, but in all cases the settler shall have the right on any installment date after five years to repay any and all installments still unpaid, yet he may not have a deed prior to 10 years from the date of application. This is to cut out speculators who would buy with the idea of selling out in a short time at an advanced price. The law would not displace private enterprise in colonization, but it will show savings which can be effected in time and money by having improvements needed to make land habitable and productive, carried out by a centralized management properly financed; also the value to settlers of a capable business advisor. The law gives opportunities for using the Federal farm loan law to aid settlers. It gives settlers a low rate of interest and up to 40 years' time in clerical and professional services, 916; foods, 410; hotels, residential housing tutions, 6368; trades, 1694; mining, 1071; mining, 875; private hospitalation and public sale and retail offices, 12,463. Ed about equally skilled occupants of the people males and 15 p. The average cies for jobs in state has thus $100,000, or two islandage approvals maintenance o. The employee realize the value by the public having proven that they are employment mem employment practices basis. Year, 10,690 employees, 4765 in Sacramento, 1692 in Los Angeles are leading oinent employers parts of the s. The bureau for 63,331 em months periods and women t about 85 out employers wee records of pri. The state has number of app positions and aged system short notice a Mr. Hollway gave up his business in the city seven years ago and went to Glendale to rest. Idleness soon proved irksome. Friends said, "Do try keeping a few chickens," and he tried first for amusement, afterward, as he came to realize the possibilities of "a little place well tiled," for what there was in it. The dozen or two hens was gradually increased. To the sale of eggs was added the sale of baby chicks, of broilers and of breeding stock. Different breeds were added as there was demand for them, till now five varieties are kept: S. C. White Leghorns, White Minorcas, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks and Anconas. Last year 600 baby chicks were sold and about 1000 broilers, while hundreds of orders were filled for hatching eggs. Mr. Hollway plans to raise 500 hens each year for replenishing his own stock, and in order to do this he must raise about 1000 chicks to broiler age. To make room for these new hens, 250 of the older hens are sold off each summer. The most interesting building on any poultry plant is the brooder house. Mr. Hollway's has the south front which every well regulated brooder house must have, with windows along the floor, and is divided by full height partitions into four compartments, each large enough for 100 chicks. The brooders are of the hot water type, the water being heated by a small gas stove, and the temperature in both brooder and play room is kept so high that the chicks are perfectly comfortable wherever they are. The simple device of raising the window a few inches gives the chicks access to their sunny outside run, and after the first few days, except on chilly days, they may be seen running in and out, cooling off in the yard, then running back into the play room or, if they are chilled, to the brooder for warmth. The first 24 hours after hatching the chicks get nothing but the dry sand which covers the floor of the law would not displace private enterprise in colonization, but it will show savings which can be effected in time and money by having improvements needed to make land habitable and productive, carried out by a centralized management properly financed; also the value to settlers of a capable business advisor. The law gives opportunities for using the Federal farm loan law to aid settlers. It gives settlers a low rate of interest and up to 40 years' time in which to earn the money out of the land. If this bill passes the board would invite land owners or groups of land owners, to submit tracts having a total acreage of say, from 4,000 to 10,000 acres, to it for inspection. Those who thus submit land will be informed that they need not state the sale price unless they prefer to do so. When the lands so submitted have been inspected, an offer would be made by the board to buy the tract or tracts regarded as best suited to such settlement. All prices in such offers would be held confidential by the land owners. No price will be disclosed by the board except that paid for the land bought, as it is felt undesirable that this act should be used to either raise or depress land prices. I make this explanation because some anxiety has been expressed regarding its influence on land values. The age limit has been made low because there is a crying need all over America for some arrangement which will enable young men who know how to farm and like farming to marry and settle down on land they own or which they will own when paid for. The only outright appropriation asked for is $10,000, which is to be used in inaugurating the enterprise. The $250,000 which is to become a revolving fund is to be repaid to the state with interest at 4 per cent, which is a higher rate than the state no receives on the money it lends. That it is possible to do this is shown by the experience of other countries where the conditions are not as favorable as those in California and where the need for such action is at least no greater. FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU PROVES A SUCCESS Nearly Fifty Thousand People Furnished Jobs During First Year The bureau has number of applications and ages system short notice as far 44,461 men applied for work months: February April, March 360; July, 3648; August 4244; October December, 2447. The success ment bureau has number of labor cation for the employment bple to allow veice, but the will not permit lieved that t will come to adequate appl VACINA Hereafter University of against typhoon not going to end until it satisfaction o that the vaccine immune is abtoined af anti-typhoid and the student for eighteen period he will hospital and ed typhoid bas der the skin formation it will be de student has from typhoid form addition um can be g rendered imm Any physic state may seek without charge reau of comm university ca FREE EMPLOYMENT BUREAU PROVES A SUCCESS Nearly Fifty Thousand People Furnished Jobs During First Year The public employment bureaus of the state of California came within 7 of reaching the maximum positions filled estimated, 50,000 for the first year's work, as made by the state labor commissioner, John P. McLaughlin, some months ago. The bureaus filled 49,993 positions, or five times more than the estimate made by the legislature which created this department. This immense army of men and women found positions in the following bureaus: San Francisco 19,461; Oakland, 7586; Sacramento, 1806; Los Angeles, 15,141. A comparison of positions filled by months shows: February, 1525; March 2089; April, 3286; May, 4281; June, 4981; July, 4869; August, 5952; September 6502; October, 5134; November, 4464; December, 3428; January, 3551. New York which has been in the employment business two years, with branches in Albany, Buffalo, Brooklyn, Rochester and Syracuse, for the same period filled only 2558 more positions than California, and San Francisco came within 2803 of filling as many positions as the five municipal offices in New York city. California filled 16,162 more positions than Massachusetts during this period, San Francisco beating Boston by 341 positions. The positions filled by the California bureaus include all classes of labor, being divided as follows: Agriculture, 4510; building construction, 6019; Any physical state may see without charge reau of comm university ca CODLING M An exhaust moth in New ed by the U. nature as profes 429, by A. L. Geyer. This on by the bur Pecos Valley needed inform in that valley Southwest ge assist them in tive pest. I codling mother and probably each season tremely inju try in that s imments have os valley, it results will be e generally. ACRE-PROD A very ing being made in tributors who public attent they have by their proper dollar. It is the high cost tortion and s attributable in not getting Anaheim Gazette also apt to they have several contract days down sale price per cent of it. Unless of the purchaser shall make impoan from for 50 per cent of the land of the immo the land payments fixed by 40 years, before at 5 on the immo for a per- Payment and immo a period in all cases right on any years to mentions still have a deed date of apot specula the idea of at an ad- Price private but it will be effected improving habitable by a centrally finan-tlers of a les for us-law to aid low rate of sales' time in clerical and professional, 570; factories, 916; foods, beverages and tobacco, 410; hotels, restaurants, camps, clubs, apartment houses, hospitals and institutions, 6368; lumber and timber trades, 1694; metals and machinery, 1071; mining, quarries and industries, 875; private homes, 3095; transportation and public utilities, 10,448; wholesale and retail trades, 1555; miscellaneous, 12,463. The positions are divided about equally among skilled and unskilled occupations. About 85 per cent of the people receiving positions were males and 15 per cent females. The average fee paid private agencies for jobs is $2; on this basis the state has thus far saved employees $100,000, or twice as much as the legislature appropriated for two years' maintenance of the bureaus. The employers have been quick to realize the valuable service rendered by the public employment bureaus, having proven to their satisfaction that they are dealing with expert employment men who are handling the employment problem on a strict business basis. During the past fiscal year, 10,690 employers patronized the bureaus, 4765 in San Francisco, 1320 in Sacramento, 2831 in Oakland and 1692 in Los Angeles. Many of these are leading corporations and prominent employers, located in various parts of the state. The bureaus received 27,623 orders for 63,331 employees during this 12-months period and selected 59,214 men and women to fill the positions and about 85 out of every 100 sent to the employers were hired. This beats all records of private agencies. The state has always on hand a large 'number of applicants for all classes of positions and through its well-managed system is able to fill orders on short notice and with efficiency. Thus of his crops. It is, of course, a very silly contention from all reasonable points of view. It is a general and historic fact that, as trade is now constituted, the buyer pays the grower less per pound the greater his product is, and will continue to do so as long as he can—sometimes with good reason, but generally with the requisite amount of bad luck on his part. The cure for this is price fixing by associated producers, in accordance with better statistics than have ever yet been attained, of actual supply and prospective demand when the crop is ready to move. Until this cure is reached it may do to claim that if the farmer would increase his acre product, the farmer would get less, the consumer would pay less and the distributor would get just the same—except that it does not work out that way very often. The usual result is that the farmer gets less, the consumer pays just the same, and the distributor gets more, when the supply is increased. Of course, as high patriotic and humanitarian lumps arise in his throat, the dealer forgets this and we find him, honestly perhaps, declaring that the real cure for the high cost of living if for the farmer to get more stuff from his land, and so we hear him shouting: "The American farmer gets from 13 to 17 bushels of wheat to the acre; the European farmer gets from 24 to 30 bushels per acre; therefore the reason why we do not have enough flour is because the lazy fool American farmer is so shiftless. It is all nonsense to arraign trade, transportation—and other distribution agencies. The guilt is all with the farmer, who grows too little and the consumer who wastes too much." The foregoing declaration of the middleman is a procession of half-truths, and therefore very deceptive First Methodist church and Richland Avenue churches of Santa Ana. F. G. Watson, pastor of the Richland avenue church, who is a cornet soloist, and the orchestra of the First church, will assist a great chorus of the Methodist churches of Orange and Santa Ana. Rev. Peck of Santa Ana will give the address. Everyone is extended a cordial invitation to participate in this, the first Sunday morning sunrise service at Hewes Park. STRANDED ON DESERT ALMOST PERISH FROM HEAT Los Angeles Family Rescued Just In Nick of Time Threatened with death by terrific heat and lack of drinking water, following an accident to their car on the desert between Blythe and Blythe Junction, J. T. Montana, together with his wife and 3-months-old baby arrived in San Bernardino Friday and gave a vivid description of a battle for life on the burning desert sands. En route to Los Angeles, Montana departed from Blythe Sunday afternoon. About half way to Blythe Junction, which is on the Santa Fe cut off to Phoenix, the car broke down and Montana was unable to make necessary repairs. After waiting three hours, he started to walk back to Blythe, hoping at any time to meet a motorist who could help fix the car. Mrs. Montana and the baby remained in the broken down machine. The day was one of the hottest of the year and without water, Montana struggled on towards Blythe. As the sun disappeared behind the sand dunes, Montana staggered on, moving for the arrival of help As The bureau received 27,623 orders for 63,331 employees during this 12-month period and selected 59,214 men and women to fill the positions and about 85 out of every 100 sent to the employers were hired. This beats all records of private agencies. The state has always on hand a large number of applicants for all classes of positions and through its well-managed system is able to fill orders on short notice and with efficiency. Thus far 44,461 men and women have applied for work during the following months: February, 5308; March, 3561; April, 3360; May, 3560; June, 3988; July, 3648; August, 4493; September, 4244; October, 4006; November, 3110; December, 2438; January, 2745. The success of the public employment bureaus has given incentive to a number of labor centers to make application for the establishment of free employment bureaus. The law is ample to allow the extension of the service, but the present appropriation will not permit it. However, it is believed that the legislature this year will come to the rescue and make an adequate appropriation. VACINATE FOR TYPHOID Hereafter when a student of the University of California is vaccinated against typhoid fever, the process is not going to stop there, but will not end until it has been proven to the satisfaction of the medical scientists that the vaccination has made the student immune from typhoid. This proof is abtoined after the four injections of anti-typhoid serum have been made and the students has had no injections for eighteen days. At the end of that period he will return to the university hospital and a minute quantity of killed typhoid bacilli will be injected under the skin. If this followed by the formation of a small nodule, then it will be definitely known that the student has been rendered immune from typhoid. If the nodule does not form additional injections of the serum can be given until the subject is rendered immune. Any physician practicing in this state may secure anti-typhoid vaccine without charge by applying to the bureau of communicable diseases on the university campus. CODLING MOTH IN NEW MEXICO The foregoing declaration of the middleman is a procession of half-truths, and therefore very deceptive and misleading, but, like a run of grace notes in music, it is calculated to tickle the popular ear, and therefore should be somewhat critically considered as to its content of real truth. It is, of course, true that the acre-yield of grain crops of this country can be increased 25 per cent and possibly even 50 per cent or more, if everything that is necessary to such increase is done, but it cannot be easily done. In fact, if no arrangement is made by which produce can be surely sold at a percentage above cost of production, as manufactures are, there is no surety that it can be profitable done. For it must be understood that more crop means more outlay of every kind by the grower—unless he happens to be able to move upon new land of stored-up fertility, and all other natural conditions happen to favor him during the year that he makes the move. To convey the idea that the farmer can just as easily and cheaply get a large crop as he does a small one, by simply working harder and longer, as the middleman above evidently intends to assert, is a falsehood well calculated to deceive anyone who is as ignorant as the propounder thereof. Every effort to get a larger yield per acre, whether it be by better seed, by more and better tillage, or by increasing the fertility of the soil, or even the fuller knowledge to do these things, requires fundamentally more outlay, either in cash or labor or both. This added cost has, of course, to be deducted from the selling value of the increment of crop, and it is sad to acknowledge that the required investment for crop increase is not always sure to be covered by the value of that increment. It is, of course, surer to be less than the required investment in Europe than in this country because of two fixed conditions abroad, viz.: the cost of labor is much less than in America, and the selling price of the product is much greater. The European agricultural laborer has the requirements and contents of a peas- Montana was unable to make necessary repairs. After waiting three hours, he started to walk back to Blythe, hoping at any time to meet a motorist who could help fix the car. Mrs. Montana and the baby remained in the broken down machine. The day was one of the hottest of the year and without water, Montana struggled on towards Blythe. As the sun disappeared behind the sand dunes, Montana staggered on, praying for the arrival of help. As dusk settled over the desert Mrs. Montana put on the side curtains of the car and endeavored to quiet the baby, which was beginning to suffer from the heat and lack of water. Two miles north of Blythe, Montana was found by an auto stage driver, almost unconscious from his battle against death. After he had been revived with water, Montana told of the breakdown and his wife and child, left behind in the car. The return trip was made in record breaking time and the woman was found huddled in the car with the baby sound asleep. The stage driver was able to repair the car and accompanied Montana and his family to Blythe Junction, the party arriving there after midnight, all exhausted from the harrowing experience. FIGURE ON BUILDING A THOUSAND SHIPS Majority of them to be Constructed On Pacific Coast One thousand wooden vessels ranging from three to four thousand tons, cargo capacity, is the tentative building program of the federal shipping board to meet possible emergencies caused by the submarines warfare. Theodore Brent, vice chairman of the board announced at the clost of his conference with shipbuilders of San Francisco and vicinity. Brent said it would take a fleet of such dimensions to supply the allies with munitions and food stuffs and offset the losses of entente cargo carriers. The majority of the wooden vessels will probably be constructed on the Pacific coast, Brent said, after the shipbuilders had declared that the yards of the Pacific coast had sufficient timber and skilled labor to carry out any building program." It was indicated that wooden vessels could, under rush orders, be completed in from five to seven months, depending CODLING MOTH IN NEW MEXICO An exhaustive study of the codling moth in New Mexico has been published by the U.S. department of agriculture as professional paper, Bulletin No. 429, by A. L. Quaintance and E. W. Geyer. This study, which was carried on by the bureau of Entomology in the Pecos Valley, was designed to furnish needed information to the orchardists in that valley and throughout the Southwest generally which would assist them in controlling this destructive pest. In the Pecos valley, the codling moth is able to develop three and probably four broods of larvae each season and is, therefore, extremely injurious to the fruit industry in that section. While the experiments have been confined to the Pecos valley, it is believed that their results will be of benefit to fruit growers generally. ACRE-PRODUCT CURE FOR HIGH COST A very ingenious counter attack is being made in the interest of food distributors who are anxious to divert public attention from the fact that they have been getting more than their proper share of the consumer's dollar. It is now being claimed that the high cost of food is not due to extortion and speculation after the farmers' product is captured, but is wholly attributable to the farmer's laziness in not getting a greater acre product increment of crop, and it is sad to acknowledge that the required investment for crop increase is not always sure to be covered by the value of that increment. It is, of course, surer to be less than the required investment in Europe than in this country because of two fixed conditions abroad, viz.: the cost of labor is much less than in America, and the selling price of the product is much greater. The European agricultural laborer has the requirements and contents of a peasant; the American agricultural laborer has the ambitions and outlook of a sovereign—for even when he falls to dissipation, he drinks like a lord. His employer has to pay his high cost of living, either in wages or loss of efficiency or both. As increased crop requires increased labor, these conditions which the American farmer has to take into his calculation. When it comes to selling, the American farmer has to move his expensive increment half way around the world to get the price which the European producer gets at his nearest market town. There is such an advantage in cheaper production and higher selling price that it is little wonder that the American producer has been striving so long to cheapen production by machinery of greater capacity and by investing as little as possible in materials and supplies which would make for larger acre yield—for the simple reason that a small yield at least cost gives him a better show for netting something than would a larger yield at a greater cost to get it. SUNRISE EASTER SERVICES Plans for the sunrise Easter services at Hewes Park Easter Sunday have been completed. The services will be held at 6:30 o'clock under the auspices of the Epworth leagues of the First Methodist church of Orange, the FOR SALE, Wonder Powder, the only true spraying powder. Try it. Fred Marsh. Sunset 329; Homes 2184 P. J. Weisel & Company Hudson&DodgeBros. CARS Full line of tires and accessories We repair all makes of automobiles Pacific 43 Anaheim, California Home 1534 YOUR MONEY WILL BE WELL INVESTED IF YOU PURCHASE A TICKET VIA THE SALT LAKE ROUTE NEXT TIME YOU GO EAST; A JOURNEY IN THE POPULAR LOS ANGELES LIMITED or PACIFIC LIMITED will be one of enjoyment of the excellent service and accommodations. These trains run daily through to Chicago via Salt Lake City LOS ANGELES LIMITED or PACIFIC LIMITED will be one of enjoyment of the excellent service and accommodations. These trains run daily through to Chicago via Salt Lake City and Union Pacific and carry both first class and tourist cars. Los Angeles Limited also has a through Denver Sleeper, and Pacific Limited through sleepers to Butte and St. Paul, and to Chicago via D. & R. G. and Burlington Route. Let me give you full particulars. J. J. TAVIS, C. P. Agent, 201 W. 4th St., Santa Ana Phone: Home 211 P.S. The American Express operates over Salt Lake route The Gazette Reliable Clean Newsy Official Paper $1.50 Per Year Good Advertising Medium THE RISE OF JAPAN The commercial rise of Japan is even more significant than her development as a military power. Whether by seeing the herd of Toggenburg milch-goats which the University of California will display to the 15,000 visitors expected at the university farm picnic at Davis on Saturday, April 28. One of these goats produces as much milk as is needed for an average family, at no more cost per quart than cow's milk and under some circumstances even cheaper. Moreover, small places often have plenty of feed for a goat, but not enough for a cow. The goat industry is expected to increase in popularity in California, since there are hundreds of thousands of acres of foothill land where the goat can pick up a far better living than could larger animals. The goat never has tuberculosis, from which a considerable portion of all cows in California suffer, and its milk is especially suited to the feeding of infants. LIBRARY REPORT Miss J. Elizabeth Calnon, librarian for the Anaheim public library, makes the following report for the month of March, 1917: Circulation: - Adult fiction ... 854 - Juvenile fiction ... 366 - Non fiction ... 85 - Magazine, monthly ... 270 - Magazine, weekly ... 62 Advertising Medium THE RISE OF JAPAN The commercial rise of Japan is even more significant than her development as a military power. Whether there will ever be a military clash between Japan and the United States is open to question, but there is no doubt about commercial competition. Against our intelligence and ingenuity Japan places initiative and aggressiveness and a scale of wages and a standard of living before which the American worker must throw up his hands. For 2,577 years the Japanese government has been instilling habits of economy into the people. Government reports of daily wages in Japan in 1915 and in New York in 1914 give this comparison: Japan New York Bricklayer $6.00 Carpenter 6.00 Blacksmith 4.00 Printer 4.25 Japan can undersell American paper manufacturers, even after coming here for the raw material, taking it home to finish and bringing it back again across the Pacific. In no product in which labor is a large percentage of the cost can we compete with Japan. It is no wonder that Japanese business men, fearing a protective tariff that would curtail Japanese exports to America, welcomed the coming of the present administration into power. KEEP A GOAT Families that need only half a cow may find a solution to their dilemma. LIBRARY REPORT Miss J. Elizabeth Calnon, librarian for the Anaheim public library, makes the following report for the month of March, 1917: Circulation:— Adult fiction ... 854 Juvenile fiction ... 366 Non fiction ... 85 Magazine, monthly ... 270 Magazine, weekly ... 62 1637 Reading Room Attendance:— Adult ... 895 Juvenile ... 565 1460 New card holders ... 24 New books added ... 33 Everybody in California—man, woman and child—would have something like $210.33 in the savings bank if the $601,133,318 savings shown on deposit in state banks in a report of the State Superintendent of Banks, were divided per capita. The total resources of state commercial savings and trust banks as of March 5 was $914,880,652. Germanla Halle A splendid LUNCH EVERY DAY. BEST BRANDS OF WINES, LIQUORS, AND CIGARS FOR THOSE DESIRING THEM, COLD BEER ALWAYS ON TAP. YOUR POTRONAGE IS SOLICITED. WE MAKE A SPECIALTY OF KENTUCKY DEW WHISKEY Famous San Diego Beer J. D. Heitshusen