anaheim-gazette 1917-04-19

RED CROSS DUTIES DEFINED BY SECRETARY Much Will be Expected of It During The War A circular letter has been issued by Ellot Wadsworth, secretary of the American Red Cross, defining the duties of that organization. He says: "Last summer when the troops were mobilized to go to the Mexican border the provision made by the government for the relief of families of soldiers did not become actually operative for three months after the men had left their homes. During this period many organizations, state, city and private worked on this particular problem. Many Red Cross chapters undertook the work in its entirety or in cooperation with the local government officials, chambers of commerce and philanthropic societies. As the problem comes up again the anticipated magnitude of the work to be done makes it necessary that the preater part of this relief must be done beneath the Red Cross faag. This phase of the work will be national in a very short time. For this reason the more elements in a community which can be brought into the chapter the better able the chapter will be to take care of Red Cross problems for that community. The American Red Cross is eager to recognize organizations which assisted in relief in the last mobilization, and hopes for cooperation with all efforts having this end in view. "Al chapters of the Red Cross have been instructed to keep in touch with troops as mobilized, and out their needs, and fill them. When the militia was mobilized last summer many men needed such important articles as tooth brushes, an extra suit of underwear, extra socks and many other accessories which tend toward their practically all the denominational bodies record substantial growth of membership, the total net increase for 1916 being 747,000, or 204,000 [in excess of the increase of 1915]. Further discussing this increase indicated by Dr. Carroll, the Christian Herald says: "Gains of the United Protestant bodies in membership were about 500,000, while the Catholic gains were 220,000. The largest Protestant denominational gains were: Methodist, 136,000; Baptist, 132,000; Presbyterian and Reformed, 79,000; Episcopal, 27,000; Lutheran, 20,000. "During the year there was a comparatively small gain in the number of churches—117 now being recorded. In 1915, it will be remembered, there was a net loss of churches. There is, however, a gain in ministers of 2643, or nearly double that of a year ago. "The small increase of churches in 1916 is not necessarily to be accepted as an indication of weakness, for it is explained that a number of churches, particularly in the rural districts, are being united or merged for the sake of efficiency and economy, and without any reduction in communicants or attendance. "Twenty six years ago the total number of Christian communicants in the country was 20,618,000, and the present total shows a net gain of 19,399,000, or 94 per cent. The Protestant Christians of America in full church connection have nearly doubled in a quarter of a century. In this they have greatly outstripped the rate of growth of our population. The nation's increase in population during the same period was about 39,000,000 or 61 per cent. "Our Sunday schools in the United States have had a total aggregate increase in the last ten years of 6,300,000, with a gain of between 15,000 and 16,000 schools." HOW TO RAISE THE BY UNION Anyone who wants either in a family yard on a market garden can get valuable bulletin on "Lettuce ifornia," written by assistant professor at University of Iowa sued by the university free by writing to culture at Berkeley. A great development industry is predictive since so heavy a drown lettuce is is often difficult to demand. Last year acres were planted forla, or three times as five years east county last year crates of lettuce grown extensively Sacramento and least small amountery county in California. The cost per acre is estimated by the $75 to $100. Expender favorable costs 2000 dozen heads average price of one head, this means on good land, a an acre and a na with the land in three or four moons. Would be grown however, that let us as to soil require suited to a rich, he never planted on irrigation is necesitent growing in the rainy season usually ruined by an HALF THE PEOPLE BELONG TO CHURCH Big Increase in Membership During The Year 1916 The church population of the country is nearly half the total population, according to the figures prepared again this year by Dr. H. K. Carroll, religious statistician. His grand total of membership in all churches of the United States is 40,016,789. "When to this total is added the number of children in the families of church members but not yet enrolled," the Epworth Herald (Chicago) finds it "easy to believe that the church population of the country is well over fifty millions." and the total population is now about one hundred millions. The Methodist weekly glances at a few of the more interesting figures in Dr. Carroll's long and carefully prepared tabulation. The ten largest denominational groups, in order of membership, are: "Al chapters of the Red Cross have been instructed to keep in touch with troops as mobilized, and out their needs, and fill them. When the militia was mobilized last summer many men needed such important articles as tooth brushes, an extra suit of underwear, extra socks and many other accessories which tend toward their greater comfort and health. Now that war has been declared in earnest it is only a matter of time when the American Red Cross will be called upon to perform for the first time in its own country one of the principal pieces of work for which it was organized. In order to place the Red Cross in the position which it should occupy through the country each chapter must do its share carefully, thoroughly and intelligently. We must seek to do whatever work is undertaken in the best possible way and accept the definite responsibility of seeing it through. The Red Cross depends for its support upon private citizens, men and women, who wish to help in time of need. If this great power in each community is properly directed it can accomplish results of the greatest importance to the country and to our armed forces, both army and navy." SOME PUZZLE Someone has found a puzzle that is a corker. All attempts to arrive at the mathematical reason for it have been futile, but it works just the same. Try it. Ask a person to write down on paper the year he was born, then the year he was married, next the number of years he will be married his next birthday and last what his age will be his next birthday if it falls within the present year, if not his age last birthday. Tell him to add all together and divide by two and before he does it bet him you can tell the answer. It will be 1917 this year. Next year it will give 1918, and so on. It always works. GROWING BEET SEED Sugar beet seed of good quality and in large quantities must be produced in the United States if the highest development of the beet sugar industry is to be reached. The domestic beet sugar industry, in which more than $100,000,000 is now invested, was almost wholly dependent until the outbreak of the European war on a seed supply from Europe. The production from approximately 4,000 acres of beets was harvested in 1916, but this was hardly more than sufficient to plant the acreage of beets required by natural expansion of the industry. In practically all instances the American grown seed has been found superior to the imported seed. The chief reason for the dependence of America on the importation of seed in the past was the low price at which the supply could be obtained from abroad. The studies of plant specialists of the department of agriculture lead them to believe that the quantity of beet seed and of the crops which such produce can be improved greatly by selection and plant breeding and the church connection have been in a quarter of a century. In this they have greatly outstripped the rate of growth of our population. The nation's increase in population during the same period was about 39,000,000 or 61 per cent. "Our Sunday schools in the United States have had a total aggregate increase in the last ten years of 6,300,000, with a gain of between 15,000 and 16,000 schools." At the time should be in the town. Many grown teen to twenty-per acre. The plan raised beds eighteen inches high, and apart. The seed directly in the field use seed beds, try when they are far tall, the larger during warm weather of plant for traction three inches tall long. The field few times before transplanting ter should run not flow over and should never plants and December; during February April, and those February and June. In warm should be cut and never where in that condition quickly rot. From two to five fringing season. Snipments in coined with heavy cracked ice, or refrigerator. At the university lies of church members but not yet enrolled," the Epworth Herald (Chicago) finds it "easy to believe that the church population of the country is well over fifty millions," and the total population is now about one hundred millions. The Methodist weekly glances at a few of the more interesting figures in Dr. Carroll's long and carefully prepared tabulation. The ten largest denominational groups, in order of membership, are: Roman Catholic 14,330,370 Methodist 7,608,284 Baptist 6,534,132 Lutheran 2,454,334 Presbyterian 2,171,601 Disciples 1,337,450 Protestant Episcopal 1,078,435 Congregational 790,488 Reformed 514,543 United Brethren 365,877 Besides these leading demoninations there are some which seldom get any publicity except in such tabulation as Dr. Carroll's. These names, for instance, "hardly sound like church names, but they stand for actually existing religious bodies:" Church of God in Jesus Christ: Six-Principle Baptists. Old Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian. Church of God and Saints of Christ. United Zion's Children. Defenseless. Christadelphians. Christian Workers for Friendship. Zion Union Apostolic. Church of the New Jerusalem. Hepziba Faith Association. Friends of the Temple. Social Brethren. Church Transcendent. Evidence "that people in times of general unrest, like these we are now passing through, seek consolation in religion," is found by the Christian Herald (New York). It notes that American grown seed has been found superior to the imported seed. The chief reason for the dependence of America on the importation of seed in the past was the low price at which the supply could be obtained from abroad. The studies of plant specialists of the department of agriculture lead them to believe that the quantity of beet seed and of the crops which such produce can be improved greatly by selection and plant breeding and the cost can be reduced. At present there are in this country no distinct types of sugar beets. In many sugar beet fields throughout the country, whatever the name of the so called variety grown, from six to 20 or more distinct types of beets can be found. The production of beet seed requires two seasons of growth. The mature beets resulting after one season from the seed must be harvested, the leaves removed and the roots carefully siloed with a dirt covering to preserve them in a dormant condition through the winter. These roots are planted at the earliest possible time the following spring and rapidly produce seed stalks from three to six feet in height. These are harvested with a sickle at the proper time and the seed carefully threshed, cleaned and cured. An indication of present tendencies toward state bond issues for good roads is shown in the following list of issues recently voted or now being agitated: Pennsylvania 50 million; Illinois 60 million; Colorado 50 million; New Jersey 7 million; Louisiana 20 million; California 15 million. To these may be added $75,000,000 appropriated by the federal government which will be duplicated by the various states, making an additional $150,000,000, or a total of $352,000,000. HOW TO RAISE LETTUCE TOLD BY UNIVERSITY Anyone who wants to raise lettuce, either in a family vegetable garden or on a market gardener's broad acres, can get valuable information from a bulletin on "Lettuce Growing in California," written by Stanley S. Rogers, assistant professor of olericulture in the University of California, just issued by the university and obtainable free by writing to the college of agriculture at Berkeley. A great development of the lettuce industry is predicted by Prof. Rogers since so heavy a demand for California grown lettuce is growing up that it is often difficult to supply the eastern demand. Last year more than 2000 acres were planted to lettuce in California, or three times as large an area as five years earlier. Los Angeles county last year produced 400,000 crates of lettuce, and the crop was grown extensively near San Francisco, Sacramento and Stockton, and in at least small amounts in practically every county in California. The cost per acre of growing lettuce is estimated by the university at from $75 to $100. Experienced growers under favorable conditions can produce 2000 dozen heads per acre, and at an average price of 12½ cents per dozen heads, this means, for skillful farmers on good land, a gross income of $250 an acre and a net income of $176.80, with the land in use for lettuce only three or four months. Would be growers are cautioned, however, that lettuce is very exacting as to soil requirements. It is best suited to a rich, light loam, and should never planted on soils of poor quality. Irrigation is necessary throughout the entire growing period, except during the rainy season, but the crop is easily ruined by an excess of water. The standards sold better than heat and are maturing, and controllable by using well selected seed, applying sufficient moisture when the heads are maturing, and harvesting immediately after the heads are matured, in case the weather is hot during the late spring. BRIEF NOTES Ten sugar beet growers' associations have been organized in Southern California this spring. Stocks of Lima beans in California March 1 are reported to total 212,949 sacks, Blackeyes 70,688. The bean crop on the Irvine ranch in this county will total $1,260,000 in value. Buyers are reported in the field offering from $9.00 to $9.30. Nearly 13,000 acres have been planted to cantaloupes in the Imperial Valley this year. Brawley, which has the largest acreage, has almost 5000 acres in melons. That the flood control bill allowing formation of flood control districts embracing two or more counties will pass the legislature is the prediction of Francis Cuttle of Riverside, who has just returned from Sacramento. Eight packing houses of Riverside are reported to be planning to close down until the present labor situation is settled. They have asked the railroads to bring in 1000 men to work in the groves. The present wage scale is $1.75 to $2.25 per day. Don't fear overproduction. If the war should stop today Europe will still starve unless America feeds her. And prices for all food stuffs are bound to be high. Both patriotism and chance for profits should move the farmer to produce to the limit. Never in the world's history was there such a shortage of food. It has even been seriously suggested that unless farmers strain every effort to increase production the United state government of 6,300,000 and that is arrive at it have the same. state down then next the married what his if it if not to add and be can tell this year and so on. Quality be pro the high sugar in the domes which more stated, was until the year on a The pro5000 acres 1916, but insufficient as require the induces the been found need. The evidence of of seed that which need from finalists of pure lead quantity of which such greatly by and the an acre and a net income of $176.80, with the land in use for lettuce only three or four months. Would be growers are cautioned, however, that lettuce is very exacting as to soil requirements. It is best suited to a rich, light loam, and should never planted on soils of poor quality. Irrigation is necessary throughout the entire growing period, except during the rainy season, but the crop is easily ruined by an excess of water. The crop stands cold better than heat, and in many of the interior valleys of the state is impossible to raise lettuce of good quality during the summer. At the time of planting, the soil should be in the finest possible condition. Many growers apply from fifteen to twenty-five tons of manure per acre. The plants should be grown on raised beds or ridges, twelve to eighteen inches wide, four to six inches high, and ten to fifteen inches apart. The seed may be planted directly in the field or the grower may use seed beds, transplanting the plants when they are from two to four inches tall, the larger size being preferable during warm weather. The best size of plant for transplanting has a top three inches tall and roots two inches long. The field should be irrigated a few times before planting and again after transplanting the plants. The water should run between the beds and not flow over the tops of the beds, and should never be allowed to cover the plants. There should always be an adequate amount of moisture in the soil, from the time the plants have commenced to head until they have matured. The hoeings necessary on raised ground will vary from one to five. The earth around the plants should not be allowed to harden. In the interior valleys of the state plants set in the field during September should mature during November and December; those set in the field during February, from February to April, and those transplanted during February and March, from April to June. In warm weather the lettuce should be cut early in the morning, and never when the heads are wet, as in that condition they will heat and quickly rot. The field is gone over from two to five times during the cutting season. The crop is packed for snipments in crates, the crates being lined with heavy paper and ice with cracked ice, and then shipped in iced or refrigerator cars. At the university farm vegetable Don't fear overproduction. If the war should stop today Europe will still starve unless America feeds her. And prices for all food stuffs are bound to be high. Both patriotism and chance for profits should move the farmer to produce to the limit. Never in the world's history was there such a shortage of food. It has even been seriously suggested that unless farmers strain every effort to increase production the government must turn farmer, either with his trained soldiers or otherwise. The war we have entered is not of our choosing, but the conditions it has created put a big problem and a big opportunity up to the farmer. FREEDOM FOR JEWS The Russian revolution marks the end of the martyrdom of a race. The future historian is going to be no more concerned with the downfall of the Romanoff dynasty than with the passing of the Bourbons or the Stuarts. The incident of the great change that will bulk biggest in the books is that early in 1917 the last nation to prosecibe a people because of creed fell in step with the march of civilization and humanity and religious persecution faded from the earth. There will be no more pogrom, no more Kichener massacres, no more Pale and no more ghettos in Russia. The centuries long nightmare of the Jews is over. The edicts of Pobledonastev have faded into history with the Spanish Inquisition, and the law that a Jew without a beard was subject to death at the hands of the first citizen who caught him shaved. The slaughter of men and women on the carhge that they used Christian blood in making of Passover bread—a charge, by the way, that was originated by the Romans, as an excuse for killing Christians—will never again be countenanced by a government. Future historians will record as a curiosity of the 20th century that a Jew was put on trial for his life on the accusation that he slew a child on the altar, as part of his religious observance, at the very time that Nathan Straus was saving the lives of thousands of babies by his pasteurized milk stations and that Simon Flexner was developing his serum to check the ravages of a disease that used to carry off 90 out of every 100 children that caught it. In warm weather the lettuce should be cut early in the morning, and never when the heads are wet, as in that condition they will heat and quickly rot. The field is gone over from two to five times during the cutting season. The crop is packed for snipments in crates, the crates being lined with heavy paper and iced with cracked ice, and then shipped in iced or refrigerator cars. At the university farm vegetable garden eighty different varieties of lettuce were growing during the past season, and most of them did well. The four varieties, however, now most in favor in California are the Los Angeles or New York Market, which is best adapted for long-distance shipments and which withstands cold weather injury, but is not adopted to maturing during hot weather; the Iceberg, especially adapted to maturing during hot weather; the Hansen, a desirable variety for local market, and the California Cream Butter, with outer leaves slightly spotted with inconspicuous brown spots, this variety having a rich creamy taste. The chief difficulties the lettuce grower meets are lack of a satisfactory stand, due to unfavorable weather, seed or poor germinating power or to over irrigation or under irrigation; or diseases, such as "stem rot", a fungus disease controllable by bood drainage, and sunburn, blackening of the edge of the leaves inside the heads, caused by a period of excessively hot weather from the time the plants are half grown until they have commenced to head, and preventable by planting in the fall or early spring and by frequent irrigation during the spring if the weather is very hot and dry; and failure to produce solid heads, caused by poor seed, too little moisture, or excessively hot weather while the plants FOX FARMING Silver foxes a few years ago brought as high as $15,000 a pair in the open market. 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