anaheim-gazette 1917-05-17

SHORT COURSE IN STATE FARM SCHOOL MUCH VALUABLE INFORMATION TAUGHT SHORT TIME STUDENTS AT AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE ANY OF THE DIVERSIFIED INTERESTS OF CALIFORNIA CAN BE STUDIED UNDER EXPERTS The purpose of the Short Courses in agriculture is to enable persons, especially those of mature years and ranch experience, to acquire a knowledge of the fundamental principles of agriculture and of the results of the latest investigations in the production of fruit, field and forage crops, and live stock of the various classes. The rapidity with which the science of agriculture has developed and the many ways in which ranch profits may be increased or losses reduced make it highly desirable for the modern rancher to add the fruits of the latest research to his own practical experience. There is no state in the Union where agriculture is so diversified as in California, and it is to meet this situation that the College of Agriculture has arranged for the conduct of Farmers' Short Courses at the university farm, in which instruction is offered in subjects relating to all branches of agriculture of importance to the state. Separate courses, each one of the main line of the Southern Pacific, 13 miles west of Sacramento and 76 miles from San Francisco. A large variety of products are grown on the university farm, both by irrigation and by dry farming. The facilities for investigations on the duty of water are probably unequaled anywhere and a most complete collection of devices for measuring water are installed so that their actual operation may be see nand understood. The farm is provided with numerous buildings for instruction in the various phases of agriculture and horticulture. These include a large auditorium building, a commercial creamery, stock pavilion, animal husbandry, horticulture, and veterinary science buildings, mechanical shops, three dormitories, a large dining hall, and buildings for horses, dairy and beef cattle, sheep, swine, and poultry. One concrete silo and five wooden stave silos furnish succulent feed throughout the year for the live stock. There are over 120 head of dairy cattle, the following breeds being represented: Holstein-Friesian, Jersey, Guernsey, and Ayrshire and about 50 head of beef cattle, belonging to the Hereford, Shorthorn and Aberdeen Angus breeds. There are the following breeds of sheep: Shropshire, Hampshire, Southdown, Cotswold, Rambouillet, and Romney Marsh. In the aggregate there are about 150 head of sheep in the breeding flock. Representatives of milch goats and Angoras are also kept. Hog raising is highly developed. The total number handled each year is about 400, representing the Poland-China, Berkshire, Duroc-Jersey, Tamworth, Chester White, Hampshire, and Large Yorkshire breeds. The breeding herd consists of toward 50 brood sows. There are representatives of both light and heavy horses in the horseber of students making will be course in cheefer will be limited in Poultry Husbandry. In order to start ter crops a field will be held at connection with the short course production. Farmers who ing the short course pare exhibits cereals, beans, entry in the show classified and active merits. THE NEWS MABEL TALLAFF popular stars in on the screen night in "The by the Rolfe Phi stirring drama ample wide scope difficult part to This star has lent judgment never accepting believe in. She good judgment first legitimate ville, and the star to appear This was in "she was eminence a final season in "The New ferro devoted making of Met vious to "The peared in "A There is no state in the Union where agriculture is so diversified as in California, and it is to meet this situation that the College of Agriculture has arranged for the conduct of Farmers' Short Courses at the university farm, in which instruction is offered in subjects relating to all branches of agriculture of importance to the state. Separate courses, each one of six weeks' duration, will be given in the following subjects: General Agriculture, Dairy Manufactures, Horticulture, including deciduous fruits, semi-tropic, viticulture and olives, and Poultry Husbandry. Two week courses in Dairy Husbandry, Buttermaking, Cheese making and Farm Tractors will also be given. An examination of the schedule of studies in a bulletin just issued, will show how large is the program that is offered during the Farmers' Short Courses, beginning September 24. The student is taught both by lectures and by practical exercises. He is required to do things which will make him more expert in his work of stock raising, dairying, or fruit growing. To test milk, to judge live stock, to immunize hogs and perform simple surgical operations are only a few of the practical things which a student is taught to do. On account of the large number of lectures and practical exercises offered in these courses it is impossible for a person to take all exercises during one session. In fact, only about one-third of the lectures or practice period could be taken by a person in any one year. For this reason many have found it to their advantage to attend several sessions of the short courses. There are few places in California today that are more interesting to farmers than the university farm, with its numerous lines of experimental work, its instruction to university students, and its 300 farm school students. This farm, which was purchased in accordance with a California statute of 1905, comprises 779 acres of fine alluvial soil. It is situated at Davis, Yolo county, a station on the breeding flock. Representatives of milch goats and Angoras are also kept. Hog raising is highly developed. The total number handled each year is about 400, representing the Poland-China, Berkshire, Duroc-Jersey, Tamworth, Chester White, Hampshire, and Large Yorkshire breeds. The breeding herd consists of toward 50 brood sows. There are representatives of both light and heavy horses in the horse barn, viz: 12 light harness and saddle horses and 15 pure bred Percherons and grade or pure bred Shires. There are 35 acres of vineyards and about 550 varieties of grapes; 60 acres of almond, peach, prune, apricot, apple, pear, cherry, walnut, and olive orchards. Budding, grafting, pruning, and spraying are all taught by actual practice. Sixty acres are devoted to experiments with field and forage crops. Thorough instruction in butter, cheese, and ice cream making is offered in connection with the commercial creamery course. The university farm creamery is operated the year around in order to give creamery practice work in the Dairy Manufactures courses. The sales of dairy products amount to about $50,000 a year. Cream and milk from the surrounding country or produced on the farm are purchased for manufacturing butter, cheese, and ice cream. A market milk route is also maintained. Four Short Courses, each lasting six weeks, are offered during the fall of 1917, from September 24 to November 2, viz.: Agriculture, Horticulture, Poultry Husbandry, and Dairy Manufactures. These courses will be followed by two week courses in Dairy Husbandry, Butter making and Gas Tractors, November 5 to 17. A course for Cheese Makers will be given December 3 to 15. The two week courses are intended for people who have had at least six months' practical experience in the various branches of agriculture or dairying, and only those who have had such experience will be admitted to these courses. The num- Gravity is Not the Test for Gasoline "The specific gravity test is worthless, as a test of gasoline quality." So says the U.S. Bureau of Standards. Boiling points comprise the only real test, because easy starting, quick acceleration, maximum power, depend absolutely on boiling points. The gravity-hydrometer tells you nothing about the boiling points of gasoline. RED CROWN the Gasoline of Quality Is straight - distilled, and thus has its boiling points in a gradually rising, unbroken chain—low boiling points for easy starting, medium boiling points for quick and smooth acceleration, high boiling points for power and mileage. No mixture can contain an unbroken chain of boiling points—the hundreds of intermediate points are missing. Be sure and get Red Crown. It's pure gasoline—not a mixture. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (CALIFORNIA) RED CROWN GASOLINE Anaheim Gazette ber of students in the course in butter making will be limited to 20; in the course in cheese making the number will be limited to 16; and in the course in Poultry Husbandry to forty. In order to stimulate interest in better crops a field crop show or contest will be held at the university farm in connection with the first three weeks of the short course devoted to crop production. Farmers who are planning on attending the short course are urged to prepare exhibits of their crops, such as cereals, beans, potatoes, riots, etc., for entry in the show. All entries will be classified and judged upon their relative merits. THE NEW GRAND MABEL TALIAFERRO IN "THE BARRICADE" TONIGHT Mabel Tallaferro, one of the most popular stars in moviesom, will appear on the screen at the New Grand tonight in "The Barricade," produced by the Rolfe Photoplay company. This attiring drama gives Miss Tallaferro ample wide scope and she plays her difficult part to perfection. This star has always used excellent judgment in her choice of plays, never accepting one that she did not believe in. She further showed her good judgment in being one of the first legitimate stars to enter vaudeville, and the very first American star to appear in motion pictures. This was in "Cinderella," in which she was eminently successful. After a final season on the speaking stage in "The New Henrietta," Miss Tallaferro devoted her entire time to the making of Metro wonderplays. Previous to "The Barricade" she has appeared in "A Wife by Proxy," "The ORANGE COUNTY CITIZENS CHEERFULLY PROVIDE FUNDS Will Send Ambulance Driver to Battle Front in France The movement started several days ago at a Stanford Alumni luncheon in Los Angeles to raise a fund of $450, with which to pay the expenses of an ambulance driver to serve one year on the battle fields of France, met with hearty response and the fund was provided. The ambulance drivers are sent with money raised in the United States. It costs $450 per man. Several of the universities of this country have sent units to the front. Jhst now there is need for more ambulance drivers. Undergraduates at Stanford have enlisted to go. One unit of about 40 men has already gone forward. Thirty more Stanford students have enlisted, and money had been raised to pay the expenses of only a part of these men. Ralph J. McFadden, a Stanford graduate, former president of the Orange county highway commission, declared this county would raise enough money to send one of the men to France and he got busy. He had no hesitation in saying that the money would be raised in this county before Monday night, by which time it had to be raised. McFadden returned here and immediately got to work. Wednesday night he went to the Elks lodge, of which he is a charter member, and within a few minutes he had raised $78. The appeal for funds was made to every man, woman and child. There was no list kept of those who gave, it simply being a pass the hat proposition. IMMORTAL TRIBUTE TO OLD a thing would have been countenanced by a country at heart fair and reasonable. But surely it has impressed some lessons worth while. If it helps us to distinguish the next craze of the kind that comes along, perhaps it will have served a worthy purpose, after all. AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE GOUGED The Republican Publicity Association through its president, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., has given out the following statement at its Washington headquarters: The price increases of foodstuffs consumed at home are unwarrantably greater than the price increases of foodstuffs exported. If Federal control of food supply becomes a fact the speculators will have themselves to blame. In discussing the question of government food control recently, Senator Gallinger presented a table, which was printed in the Congressional Record, prepared by a company engaged in general marketing of foods. This table enumerated 60 items in the food budget of the ordinary family, showing the difference in retail price April, 1914, and April 1917. The total increase on all the items was 5,119 per cent, the average of the entire list being 85.32 per cent. The smallest increase was rice, 12 per cent, the largest cabbage, 400 per cent. The company that prepared this table operates on the chain store plan, makes no deliveries, cuts its overhead to the minimum, buys in enormous quantities, and plays for quick turn over and small margin profit. It is a 'people's' store. Of the 60 items enumerated, twelve are specifically mentioned in the department of commerce table entitled "Monthly Average Export Prices of Domestic Articles," based on the actual cost, or the value of articles at RECOGNITION FOR CERTAIN VETERANS Representative Edward L. Hamilton of Michigan has presented a measure to the house that will have a special interest to men who served in the army, navy or marine corps in the belief in. She further showed her good judgment in being one of the first legitimate stars to enter vaudeville, and the very first American star to appear in motion pictures. This was in "Cinderella," in which she was eminently successful. After a final season on the speaking stage in "The New Henrietta," Miss Tallafero devoted her entire time to the making of Metro wonderplays. Previous to "The Barricade" she has appeared in "A Wife by Proxy," "The Sunbeam," "The Dawn of Love," "God's Half Acre," "The Snowbird," "Her Great Price," and "The Three of Us." "TREASON" FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Robert Lee Weigert's work of fiction, "The Reward of His Government," has been translated to the screen and under the title of "Treason" will be reflected in Bluebird pho toplays at the New Grand Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday matinee, with Allen Holubar, Lois Wilson and Joseph Girard playing the principal roles. "Treason" tells a story of war time in the principality of Statiria, a nation in conflict with its neighbor. Petrus Baarlot, a government telegraph operator, has been wounded while performing duty near the firing line. Mentioned for bravery in army orders, he is sent to the hospital and finally released on furlough. Going home to thoroughly recuperate, he is humiliated by his superior in pursuance of a personal grudge. Chafing under his degradation Petrus proves a prey to the spy system which the enemies of his country have established. When the chief of spies tells him that his government has forgotten his bravery, Petrus takes the evil counsel to heart and ultimately surrenders to the spy valuable military secrets. Once he has performed the act of treason his conscience smites him, and by heroic efforts Petrus manages to overcome the spy and regain the information he has imparted. Thrilling scenes and exciting episodes will lend a multiplicity of thrills to the unfolding of a gripping screen story. IMMORTAL TRIBUTE TO OLD GLORY Said the late Senator George F. Hoar of Massachusetts: "I have seen the glories of art and architecture, and of river and mountain. I have seen the sunset on Jungfrau and the moonrise over Mount Blanc. But the fairest vision on which these eyes ever rested was the flag of my country in a foreign port. Beautiful as a flower to those who love it, terrible as a meteor to those who hate it, it is the symbol of the power and the glory and the honor of fifty millions of Americans." And since those eloquent words were spoken the number of Americans has been doubled, and let us believe, also the ardor for the old flag. REASONS FOR CAR SHORTAGE Very startling figures on the car shortage from which the country is suffering are contained in a report submitted to the house of representatives by Representative John J. Esch, of Wisconsin, ranking republican member of the committee on interstate and foreign commerce. In eight closely printed pages, Mr. Esch covers the subject very exhaustively, and shows that while in April, 1915, there was a surplus of 327,084 idle cars, at the end of January of this year there was a shortage of over one hundred thousand. Mr. Esch attributes the situation to a variety of causes, among which are inadequate trackage and warehouse facilities, lack of motive power, inefficient operation, etc. At the conclusion of his report he submits a bill designed to cure the evil, and do much to restore normal conditions in our car service. JITNEY The legislature of California has given the state railroad commission authority over the jitney. Hereafter the little parasite of the highways mediately got to work. Wednesday night he went to the Elks lodge, of which he is a charter member, and within a few minutes he had raised $78. The appeal for funds was made to every man, woman and child. There was no list kept of those who gave, it simply being a pass the hat proposition. SOME BEANS Some farmers up at San Louis Obispo are planning to knock the old nursery tale about Jack and the bean-stalk higher than the top of the bean-pole and higher than Gilderoy's kite. They have planted guinea butter beans which, it is said, will produce a pod four feet long, weighing six to eight pounds each. A boy other day... RECOGNITION FOR CERTAIN VETERANS Representative Edward L. Hamilton of Michigan has presented a measure to the house that will have a special interest to men who served in the army, navy or marine corps in the Spanish, Philippine or China campaigns. In his bill Mr. Hamilton directed that campaign badges shall be awarded such men who were not in the service on January 11, 1905, at which date all such men then in the service were given badges under a general order of the war department. Mr. Hamilton believes that no discrimination should be made between men in those campaigns because of the fact that some of them left the service before the issuance of the general order, and intends to dl what he can to correct the injustice. NEW JERSEY PICNIC There will be an all day picnic reunion in Sycamore Grove, Saturday, May 26th, for all who have ever lived in the state of New Jersey and are now in Southern California. There will be the county registers all day long, the basket dinners at noon, coffee free to all who buy the badges, program in the afternoon, and a good time all day long. This invitation is for you if you ever saw the old home state of New Jersey. FOR SALE—Pair 4-year-old goldings, gentle, kind and well broken. Price $400. H. R. Hanna, Rancho El Pavo, San Marcos. SOME BEANS Some farmers up at San Louis Obispo are planning to knock the old nursery tale about Jack and the bean-stalk higher than the top of the bean-pole and higher than Gilderoy's kite. They have planted guinea butter beans which, it is said, will produce a pod four feet long, weighing six to eight pounds each. A boy the other day dropped a guinea bean in a bucket of mud, and two months later a gigantic vine had overlapped a chicken. JITNEY The legislature of California has given the state railroad commission authority over the jitney. Hereafter the little parasite of the highways will have to meet the same conditions which other common carriers meet in that state, says the Taxpayers Public Service Magazine, of Chicago. While similar restrictions are being placed about the jitney in many other states, this action in California is very significant because it was in Pacific coast cities that the jitney flourished so greatly. It really had its origin as a serious competitor of the street car in Los Angeles; at least that is where it reached the peak of its prosperity. From its operations in Los Angeles, where it ran the streets as an unlicensed outlaw, it spread with rapidity over the country. So now to be hauled up to the rack of legal accountability in California marks quite an epoch in the brief, yet all too long, career of this little impostor. The jitney craze is but another illustration of the ease with which vagaries get a hearing in this country. There is no more injustice in the jitney today than there was at first and today it is just as unjust as a thing could be, unjust, we mean, where unrestricted. The point is that it was never within the realm of justice or right or fair play to allow this irresponsible vehicle to become a competitor of the street car, which was held by a tight rein to every detail of responsibility. The wonder is that such 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 FOR SALE Three lots corner Citron and Broadway. Terms. Inquire of owner. Phone 130-J REDUCED FARES FOR SUMMER TRIPS REDUCED FARES FOR SUMMER TRIPS For vacation or business trips the Salt Lake Route offers, on May 31st and certain dates in June, July, August and September, round trip tickets at greatly reduced fares to many Eastern points. For instance, to Chicago and return, $80.00; New York $118.20; St. Louis, $77.50; St. Paul, Minneapolis, $84.45; Missouri River, $67.50; Denver, $62.50; Salt Lake City, $40.00, and many others. Return limit 3 months, but not after October 31. The ideal vacation trip is to the American Wonderlands, Yellowstone National Park and Glacier National Park, both easily reached via Salt Lake City. Round trip fares are reasonable and the world has no more marvelous sights. Full information of all these trips, train service, etc., at all offices of the SALT LAKE ROUTE 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 THOUSANDS OF CARLOADS OF IMPERIAL CANTALOUPES Largest Crop in History Getting Ready For Shipment Men, materials and cars are being assembled for the picking, packing and shipping of the largest crop of cantaloupes ever sent from Imperial Valley. Early estimates of only a fair crop because of cool weather when the fruit was setting are now recognized as faulty. It is believed that 5900 cars of cantaloupes will be shipped from the valley this year, and that more than $3,000,000 will be received for coop where the boy had left the sulphur mud containing the bean seed. The bean forced the roof off the coop and is still seeking room for more expansion. As a member of congress he was not among those who were satisfied merely with a formal declaration to uphold our national honor, but since the nation was in war he believed that it should not hesitate to do the things required for national efficiency. Mr. Kahn's striking demonstration of good citizenship should point the way for all other foreign born citizens. Their place in America is as secure as the place of the native born citizens if they appreciate the fact that the privileges of America carry with them the obligation of citizenship. CITIZENSHIP FOR AMERICAN WIVES OF FOREIGNERS Men, materials and cars are being assembled for the picking, packing and shipping of the largest crop of cantaloupes ever sent from Imperial Valley. Early estimates of only a fair crop because of cool weather when the fruit was setting are now recognized as faulty. It is believed that 5900 cars of cantaloupes will be shipped from the valley this year, and that more than $3,000,000 will be received for the crop. The total acreage this year is 12,701, an increase of 3910 acres over last year. Melon distributors from eastern markets say the trade was never in a more receptive mood for the early cantaloupes. It is believed prices will be better than ever. Among the growers W. S. Fawcett, of El Centra, has the largest acreage—1180—in cantaloupes. Last year, his friends say, he cleared $38,000 on cantaloupes. In the districts Brawley leads, as usual, there being 4924 acres adjacent to that city planted to the food. Heber is next with 3322 acres. Other acreage is as follows: Calexico, 1625; Grape, 875; Rockwood, 510; Hovley, 500; Imperial, 460; Calipatria, 347; Meloland, 140. The first cantaloupes will be sent to eastern markets this season about May 22, according to the growers, who are exhibiting fruit almost full grown. FOREIGN BORN CITIZENS Julius Kahn's successful leadership of the fight for conscription has a peculiar significance for the country in these trying times when the mixed character of the population has been a cause for concern. Mr. Kahn was born in Germany. He came here when he was a boy of 5 years. His 50 years of residence in this country left him Mr. Kahn's striking demonstration of good citizenship should point the way for all other foreign born citizens. Their place in America is as secure as the place of the native born citizens if they appreciate the fact that the privileges of America carry with them the obligation of citizenship. CITIZENSHIP FOR AMERICAN WIVES OF FOREIGNERS The present law that provides that an American woman marrying a foreigner thereby assumes the citizenship of her husband is considered by Miss Jeannette Rankin, republican representative from Montana, to be a decided injustice to the women of the country. If a man marries a foreign woman of course he does not necessarily renounce his citizenship, and in order to secure equal rights for her sex Miss Rankin has introduced a bill declaring that an American woman shall retain her citizenship upon marrying a foreigner, unless she shall in writing renounce it. Furthermore, Miss Rankin's measure might be said to be retroactive as it provides that an American woman now married to a foreigner and residing in the United States may resume her American citizenship by filing a declaration with any naturalization court within her jurisdiction. The bill has been referred to the committee on immigration and naturalization, and Miss Rankin intends to do her utmost to secure a favorable report. Mrs. Mary Matthews paid a fine of $20 for speeding on the state highway between Anaheim and Santa Ana. Deputy District Attorney Koepsel was the complaining witness.