anaheim-gazette 1917-10-18

YOUNG ORCHARDS YIELD GOOD INCOMES COMPANION CROPPING IS PROFITABLE, ALSO BENEFITS THE GROWING TREES THREE ORANGE COUNTY GROVES CITED AS EXAMPLES OF WHAT CAN BE DONE There are 75,00 acres of non bearing citrus orchards in California. All of this is irrigated land. One of the unfortunate conditions connected with this acreage is the large amount of it which is supported to bearing age by some source entirely outside of agriculture, writes Prof. R. S. Valle, in Pacific Rural Press. Many people, whose only line of endeavor—or whose best line of endeavor—is agriculture, feel that they cannot compete in orchard development with tracts subsidized by the surplus earnings or savings from other industries. Fortunately, there are many individual instances which may be cited to dispel this feeling; instances where the land itself bears the cost of orchard development as well as a large share of the family's living expense. Such instances impress one with the fact, however, that the success of companion cropping depends on the proper combination of water supply, good soil, and agricultural temperment. Three young orchards that have recently come to the writer's atten- head of milk cows and 400 laying hens, in addition to two head of work animals. The entire amount of space which is taken from the orchard by buildings, including the residence of the owner, the milk house, and the cow barn, is only about three quarter of an acre. The land between the trees has raised two or three crops of some sort of feed each year. Barley, sorghum, Indian corn, kale, and melilotus clover have been the principal crops raised. Three fourths of all the chicken feed and one fourth of the cow feed has been raised on the orchard. A load of manure has gone back on the land for each load of feed taken off. The regular irrigation is 2 3/4 acre inches per acre every 30 days. An extra irrigation is used in the spring on the corn crop and an extra irrigation in the fall on the kale and mellilotus crops. The owner and his family do all the work, including the delivery of the milk and eggs on a milk route. This route distributed something over 100 quarts of milk per day and some 240 to 350 eggs per day. During the 1916 season there was a gross income from the combination of crops of over $5,000 and the net income including payment for the family labor, must have amounted to at least one third of this amount. SUGAR FACTORIES MAKING DUCK PONDS Season Opened Tuesday and Many Sportsmen are Out Duck shooting appears this season as the happy exception to general rules, not because ducks are due to "come down" with a splash, but for sound financial reasons, decidedly unique. Always considered the especial diversion of millionaires, club duck tritive value out of that a mixture of fed to poultry is grain which predominate to be the graftable at the cheeses in the ration be made gradually fed sparingly in hot ent the cheapest grt try is barley, and for laying hens. Aside from grit a college points out, successful poultry mash and the grain. SUGAR BEET GROUND Advised Not to Sign Than $7.0 W. E. Webster, Southern California society, is advising to contract their rent less than $7 a ton, holding out for $7 of having men of the dumps and in they can make an analysis. Following agreement which is prepared: It is agreed that grown on the desolate included under this rental to be paid o to whom said rent to be used in grower be furnished by the price of 12 cents per by the grower, and for seed furnished from the price of by the grower to the finished and not put turned in good o are many individual instances which may be cited to dispel this feeling; instances where the land itself bears the cost of orchard development as well as a large share of the family's living expense. Such instances impress one with the fact, however, that the success of companion cropping depends on the proper combination of water supply, good soil, and agricultural temperment. Three young orchards that have recently come to the writer's attention may well be taken as illustrative of the possibilities. It so happens that each of these is situated in Orange county. In each case there is more than the average amount of water available. The important thing in each case, however, seems to be the personality of the farmer. The first case is a very simple one. A young orange grove was planted in March, 1915, with the trees 13x26 feet apart. Alfalfa and barely had been sown together in October, 1914, on one half of the space between each row of trees. In 1915 one ton of mixed hay per orchard acre was cut from the first cutting and following that there were five cuttings of alfalfa, averaging one third ton each to the orchard acre. The next year, 1916, there were seven cuttings, totaling three and a half tons to the orchard acre. The alfalfa is irrigated twice a month and the trees once a month. The amount of water used totals about 54 acre inches per acre for the entire season. Thirty acre inches is the usual average for orchards without companion crops in that immediate district. The trees in this orchard have been fertilized with only a small amount of the alfalfa plowed in during the winter of 1916. In the summer of 1917 they are extremely vigorous for their age. Some $60 worth of alfalfa was taken from the land for each orchard acre during the first two years and the 1917 season will certainly have seen as large a harvest. The second case is that of a young walnut orchard. One third is eight years old and two thirds four years old, with the trees planted 50x50 feet apart. Approximately 13 acres out of a 20 acre orchard is in alfalfa. Ever since the trees were planted the alfalfo has averaged six and a half tons to the orchard acre. This alfalfa is irrigated twice a month, giving a total application for the season to the orchard and alfalfa of approximately 55 Season Opened Tuesday and Many Sportsmen are Out Duck shooting appears this season as the happy exception to general rules, not because ducks are due to "come down" with a splash, but for sound financial reasons, decidedly unique. Always considered the especial diversion of millionaires, club duck shooting now is within the reach of men of moderate means. No longer is it the exclusive game that caused so many to consider it as conducted on a "dollar a duck" basis except upon the biggest of the clubs. The sport has become much cheaper this season. General reclamation of alkaline land by the sugar factories following the discovery that the lime laden sewer water runoff from treating the pulp, had special virtue for leaching out the salts destructive to vegetation has made it possible for many hunters to enjoy the privileges of clubs within 40 or 50 miles of Los Angeles for prices around $100, a season. The factories thus dispose of their sewer water; the land owners reap some returns from shooting rental while their fields are undergoing conversion from waste places into productivity, and a lot of good fellows get considerable scatter-gun action cheap. To be sure, the odor isn't "Araby the blest," but the saving in cost appeals much to those whose time is so limited that their shooting must be done a morning a week without longer absence from the daily grind. Several of the established duck clubs have gone out of the game this year, but most of them which have any prospect of sport have leased their grounds to other temporary organizations, hastily gotten together, so will still be active. The sugar water clubs are not limited to the vicinity of the Alamitos factory, the plants below Santa Ana having also overflowed a large expanse of the Irvine ranch where a new club composed of Santa Ana Elks is holding forth this year alongside the Aliso's old and established sprig pasture. Men able to devote several days to their duck shooting are now leaving in numbers for the great natural shooting grounds of the San Joaquin, Owens and Imperial valley, where the supply of mallards, springs, teal, widgeon and like species is fattening upon the rice grain and milo and kaffir grown on the deserts included under this rental to be paid to whom said renters to be used in growers be furnished by the price of 12 cents per by the grower, and for seed furnished from the price of by the grower to the finished and not turned in good order and the grower. The grower shall furnished under this not above describe. In harvesting try to be properly squarely below the tom leaf and desert stones, earth or stance, and subject for actual traction from ground, grow beets from the sunday board the cars; in the duty of the fair beets from the sunday. All sound beets paid for by the lowing rates: 1 cent sugar $7.50 with 50 cents per each 1 per cent per cent, and a diner ton for each below 15 per cent including 11 per cent centages, either at per cent, in proportion test under 11 percepted as if test beets weight less each. Factory size to reject beets to cent where the be pounds each. It is hereby fled if between the first and the first day average net selling tory of refined succeeds of 7 cents each cent per pound for sugar shall be increased fraction of a cent for sugar above that grower to a little increase per ton The second case is that of a young walnut orchard. One third is eight years old and two thirds four years old, with the trees planted 50x50 feet apart. Approximately 13 acres out of a 20 acre orchard is in alfalfa. Ever since the trees were planted the alfalfo has averaged six and a half tons to the orchard acre. This alfalfa is irrigated twice a month, giving a total application for the season to the orchard and alfalfa of approximately 55 acre inches per acre. In addition to the alfalfa on this property, 1200 to 1500 laying hens are kept. They are supplied with green feed from the alfalfa and a small portion of their grain has been raised on that part of the orchard not in alfalfa. This poultry farm is in itself profitable, and gives a constant labor demand which would not be true in case of the young orchard alone. The poultry are of direct benefit to the orchard because of the manure which is furnished. During the course of a year it is estimated that nearly a ton of chicken manure per acre is produced for the entire 20 acres. The alfalfa alone, at $10 a ton, has given a gross income of $65 per acre. In 1916 the walnut crop averaged $30 per acre and in 1917 it will be at least double that. The returns from the poultry were in the neighborhood of $75 per orchard acre, making a total gross revenue of $170 per acre. The third case is even more complicated and requires close attention on the part of the farmer. A seven and a half acre tract of land was formerly in old navel trees, which were taken out in the winter of 1914. Young Valencias were planted in March, 1915. In the summer of 1917 these trees had as fine a development and appearance as any of similar age in the vicinity. In conjunction with this orchard there are kept ten to 12 ling also overflowed a large expanse of the Irvine ranch where a new club composed of Santa Ana Elks is holding forth this year alongside the Aliso's old and established sprig pasture. Men able to devote several days to their duck shooting are now leaving in numbers for the great natural shooting grounds of the San Joaquin, Owens and Imperial valley, where the supply of mallards, springs, teal, widgeon and like species is fattening upon the rice, grain and milo and kaffir crops in enormous droves which make these sections a hunter's paradise, with gunners readily welcomed by the ranchers. In the past the lack of established shooting camps and the vast area of the game country has worked against the casual tripper, but this year many camps are being established where hunters are accommodated at reasonable charges. MIXED FEED FOR POULTRY Every hen in California ought to share in the patriotic task of conserving wheat. Every California home has been appealed to help win the war by using more cornbread, hominy and buckwheat gems, and less wheat bread. Now every poultryman ought to help by feeding a smaller proportion of wheat to his chickens. This can be done without reducing at all the profits or the yield of his eggs and his market poultry. Such is the report which has been made to the council of defense by the college of agriculture. However, the value of wheat bran as a part of the poultry ration cannot easily be over estimated, declares the college. If all the wheat were made into graham flour, poultry raising and dairying would both suffer a very material loss. Animals are much better fitted than man to get all possible nu- Any California farm to find land on wet—and the governors California to do raising 90,000 acres year than last—can lands may be advised by writing to Producers College of Agriculture. More than 200,000 California have no university as production. Privately 20,000 acres, last while nearly a hundred available for wheat by farm advisers missioners, or other now unused or used pasturage. Some of this land owners free of all one to three yr land offered is well while a consider good yields if they. The owners require lessees be of good fide farmers. To turn over their land three years, provide it into wheat. The land is offered for sixth to one-fourth some cases the land. Prof. Shaw reports have the extra care for planting more Anaheim Gazette tritive value out of wheat bran. That a mixture of grains should be fed to poultry is recommended, the grain which predominates in the mixture to be the grain at the time obtainable at the cheapest price. Alterations in the ration for poultry should be made gradually. Corn should be fed sparingly in hot weather. At present the cheapest grain to feed to poultry is barley, and barley is excellent for laying hens. Aside from grit and green feed, the college points out, the essentials for successful poultry feeding are the dry mash and the grain mixture. SUGAR BEET GROWERS DEMAND MORE MONEY Advised Not to Sign Contract For Less Than $7.00 a Ton W. E. Webster, field agent for the Southern California Beet Growers' Association, is advising the growers not to contract their next year's crop at less than $7 a ton. The association is holding out for $7 and the privilege of having men of its own employ on the dumps and in the factory where they can make a record of the analysis. Following is a portion of the agreement which the association has prepared: It is agreed that all sugar beets grown on the described land shall be included under this contract; any crop rental to be paid direct to the person to whom said rental is due. The seed to be used in growing said beets shall be furnished by the factory for the price of 12 cents per pound to be paid by the grower, and any unpaid money for seed furnished shall be deducted from the price of beets first delivered by the grower to the factory. Seed furnished and not planted shall be returned in good order to the factory applied to him for approximately three thousand acres of this land, wishing to aid to their utmost in the nation's task of winning the war. ACTIVITY AT PLACENTIA If anyone is looking for loafers or lilfers it is not worth his while to come to Placentia. There ain't no such thing here, says the Courier. The packing houses are obliged to shut down once in a while for a half day or a day, for lack of cars, but as soon as the two or three empties come in the wheels begin to turn. The shipments for last month totalled 22 cars. Twenty more could have been sent out if the cars had been available. The Randolph crew is handling tomatoes this week, shipping ripe fruit to Los Angeles and other near by points and green fruit east. The cannery has increased its force, but is not yet running at full capacity. It cannot get as much fruit as it needs, and a large percentage has to be discarded on account of sunburn, due to the continued hot weather. Two cars of canned tomatoes were shipped to Texas last month and four cars have gone out this month to Chicago and other eastern cities. J. L. Stevenson is buying up a good many tomatoes which he ships to a Pasadena firm by auto truck. Bean threshers are running long hours, trying to get the crop in before the rains come. E. A. Beck bought a new threshing machine Monday. It is not a large one, but it will help him do his bit. AGRICULTURAL NOTES There is an 18,000 acre potato farm at Starks, Wisconsin. The National Canners' Association will hold it next annual convention at the county as there were a month ago." Preston continued, "but there are still plenty to go around. The reason there are fewer now than a while back is because so many of the birds have gone south. They are naturally a migratory bird, especially the sprig which is the early bird here, and they have gone on south to the innumerable ponds and lagoons of Lower California. "The widgeon and sprig are still in the majority here, according to local hunters who have been out on the clubs in the last few days. They will furnish some mighty fine shooting for the first day, too. "The ponds south of the Santa Ana Sugar company factory, which were open grounds last year have been taken up by clubs this year, and hunters will now be compelled to stick to the roads. "The ducks are beginning to get pretty wild already. There has been a good deal of shooting going on among men who were in a hurry to get at the game. They made the excuse that the birds were damaging the crops, and went after them. A few weeks ago it was possible to walk right up close to the ducks, but that is not the case at the present time. "The season opened one half hour before sunrise on Oct. 16. It is against the law to shoot more than 25 birds in one day or more than 50 per week." BUMPER YIELDS Bumper barley, rice, deciduous fruit, prune and raisin crops formed the big contributing factor in making the 1917 crops of the states comprising the Twelfth Federal Reserve District—the Pacific slope—"materially greater" than a year ago according to the review issued by the federal reserve bank. A condition of general prosperity grown on the described land shall be included under this contract; any crop rental to be paid direct to the person to whom said rental is due. The seed to be used in growing said beets shall be furnished by the factory for the price of 12 cents per pound to be paid by the grower, and any unpaid money for seed furnished shall be deducted from the price of beets first delivered by the grower to the factory. Seed furnished and not planted shall be returned in good order to the factory and the grower credited therewith. The grower shall not plant any seed furnished under this contract on land not above described. In harvesting the beets they are to be properly trimmed, cut off squarely below the base of the bottom leaf and delivered free from stones, earth or other foreign substance, and subject to proper deduction for actual tare. After removal from ground, grower shall protect the beets from the sun until delivered on board the cars; it shall then become the duty of the factory to protect the beets from the sun. All sound beets shall be bought and paid for by the factory at the following rates: Beetles testing 15 per cent sugar $7.50 per ton, together with 50 cents per ton additional for each 1 per cent of sugar above 15 per cent, and a deduction of 40 cents per ton for each 1 per cent of sugar below 15 per cent, down to and including 11 per cent. Fractional percentages, either above or below 15 per cent, in proportion. Beets which test under 11 per cent will be accepted as if testing 11 per cent if beets weight less than five pounds each. Factory shall have the right to reject beets testing under 11 per cent where the beets weigh over five pounds each. It is hereby further agreed that if between the first day of July, 1918, and the first day of July, 1919, the average net selling price f. o. b. factory of refined sugar shall be in excess of 7 cents per pound, then for each cent per pound in excess of 7 cents for sugar the price of beets shall be increased $1.50 per ton; any fraction of a cent increase per pound for sugar above 7 cents shall entitle the grower to a like fraction of $1.50 increase per ton for beets. LAND FOR GROWING WHEAT Any California farmer who wishes to find land on which to grow wheat hours, trying to get the crop in before the rains come. E. A. Beck bought a new threshing machine Monday. It is not a large one, but it will help him do his bit. AGRICULTURAL NOTES There is an 18,000 acre potato farm at Starks, Wisconsin. The National Canners' Association will hold it next annual convention at Bostin in February. The United States expects to have by the end of 1918, 1600 merchant ships with a total tonnage of 9,200,000. The United States department of agriculture has completed a four year test of cold storage celery. It has been shown that the celery will keep in perfect condition for four months at least. In answer to many rumors that there will be a suspension of the action of the grain standards act during the war, the department of agriculture has announced that the standards will be enforced. Wholesale fish distributors from all parts of the country have been in conference with the food commission in Washington, to lay plans to promote the sale of fish in order to save meat for shipment to our Allies. Special licenses will not be resuired for shipment of raw cotton to Great Britian, France, Italy, Japan, Russia or any of their colonies. This provision is the result of a special order of the Exports Administration board. The "Pink Bollworm" bill has been signed by the governor of Texas. This bill creates a zone embracing counties along the Rio Grande, in which production of cotton is prohibited. The bill is designed to exterminate the pink bollworm. The war has had no apparent effect on imports of silks, raw silks brought in for manufacture the past year amounting to $156,000,000 against $119,000,000 last year which was the record. The United States is now the greatest silk manufacturer in the world. Careful plans have been made to prevent waste of garbage in the great army cantonments established in different parts of the country. It has been found that the garbage from food served to ten to 15 men will feed one hog. Bones and other waste will be turned into fertilizer. BUMPER YIELDS Bumper barley, rice, deciduous fruit, prune and raisin crops formed the big contributing factor in making the 1917 crops of the states comprising the Twelfth Federal Reserve District—the Pacific slope—"materially greater" than a year ago according to the review issued by the federal reserve bank. A condition of general prosperity with but one discordant note is seen in the review—that one note being the strikes which are shaking coast industries. "If Russia's internal contentions aid the enemy," the review says, "and threaten that country's newly gained liberty, surely it is no less directly helpful to the enemy to stop work on ships or curtail output by reducing hours or energy." Touching on crop conditions the reserve bank finds that the total wheat crop of the district will show a decrease of 18 per cent this year and while other states have decreased barley productions California will produce 40,000,000 bushels against 23,000,000 a year ago. It is in rice that California has made its big strides forward, however. The approximate 1912 acreage was 1400 against 70,000 in 1916 and 90,000 this year. This year's rice crop is estimated to be worth $10,000,000 "better-yields and higher prices" being important factors in the value of the rice production. The review shows 200,000,000 pounds of prunes have been produced in California this year as 130,000,000 last year and the raisin crop is 150,000 pounds over 1916. Deciduous fruit shipments total 20,000 car loads, exceeding last year's by 2200 cars. Hops have had a sensational career "About the middle of July," the report says, "hops were being contracted at 10 cents a pound. Two months later 42 cents was paid and sales in important volume were made at prices above 32 cents. The sugar beet production is expected to make a record this year. Prediction is made that California will wrest from Maine the panner for sardine production in two years if the present rate in increase is maintained. The year's pacq is estimated at 1,000,000 cases. Petroleum production in this state in August averaged 271,755 barrels daily compared with 259,266 in July LAND FOR GROWING WHEAT Any California farmer who wishes to find land on which to grow wheat—and the government has appealed to California to do the patriotic act of raising 90,000 acres more wheat this year than last—can learn where wheat lands may be advantaged by writing to Prof. C. F. Shaw at the college of agriculture, Berkeley. More than 200,000 acres of land in California have now been listed with the university as available for wheat production. Private owners have listed 20,000 acres, land companies 80,000, while nearly a hundred thousand acres available for wheat have been reported by farm advisers, horticultural commissioners, or other state officers as now unused or used only for scanty pasturage. Some of this land is offered by its owners free of all rental for periods of one to three years. Some of the land offered is well adapted for wheat, while a considerable area will give good yields if the season is favorable. The owners require that prospective lessees be of good character and bona fide farmers. To such men they will turn over their land for from one to three years, provided they will put it into wheat. The larger part of the land is offered for lease at from one-sixth to one-fourth of the crop. In some cases the land is for sale. Prof. Shaw reports that farmers who have the extra capital and equipment for planting more wheat have already DUCKS ARE PLENTIFUL IN THIS REGION Some Have Migrated During Past Month But They Are Still Numerous "There will be plenty of ducks for everybody," said J. E. Preston, of the Livesey sporting goods house of Santa Ana, in discussing the present conditions around the duck ponds of the county. "There are not so many ducks in UTILIZING WILD PLANTS Many wild plants of California may be utilized for food purposes, for drugs and for the manufacture of fibres as a result of investigations being made by expert chemists, according to a report to Gov. Stephens, by the committee on scientific research of the state council of defense. Dr. J. C. Merriam of the state university is chairman of the research committee. There are many wild plants throughout the state, the usefulness of which for industrial, economic and food uses are believed to be valuable according to reports of the investigators. A most interesting piece of scientific research by this special body is being carried on by Dr. Hall and Dr. Goodspeed of the university, on the rubber content of the rabbit bush, a common and widely distributed plant of the desert region. Hopes are en- IF YOU ARE A MOTHER OF SEVERAL SMALL CHILDREN Read This Advertisement IT WILL SAVE YOU 50 PER CENT WE HAVE BOUGHT THE ENTIRE STOCK OF CHILDREN'S KNIT UNDERWEAR FROM THE JUSTRITE STORE. AND NOW OFFER IT TO YOU AT Just About One-Half Price! THESE ARE ALL SEASONABLE GARMENTS FOR THE FALL AND WINTER SEASON. All Are Fleece Lined NICE WARM GARMENTS FOR YOUR BOYS AT HALF PRICE. SHIRTS OR DRAWERS, 25c, 30c, 35c EACH, ACCORDING TO SIZE. THESE ARE SINGLE GARMENTS, NOT UNION SUITS. 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FOR INSTANCE SEE THE FOLLOWING ANY LACE IN THE HOUSE ...5c YARD THIS INCLUDES LINEN TORCHON UP TO 25c All Go for 5c a Yard ALSO ANY SWISS EMBROIDERY IN THE HOUSE ONLY 5c A YARD GOOD OUTING FLANNEL—LIGHT WEIGHT PINK OR BLUE; ONLY ...9c a Yard FAST COLOR APRON GINGHAM ...9c a Yard ANAHEIM DRY GOODS STORE NEXT TO HUDSON'S STUDIO The Gazette Reliable Clean Newsy Official Paper $1.50 Per Year Good Advertising Medium tertained of an efficient substitute for the manufacture of rubber being obtained from this plant. A report on this investigation will not be made until it has been possible to collect and analyze plants of this species obtainable at all season of the year. C. B. Berger and H. O. Henderson have sued by J. V. Burr, who alleges that $4675 is due him from the defendants on a deal for a Modoc county ranch. Dr. M. M. Henderson, Dentist, Suite 1, Mullinix Bldg., Anaheim. NOTICE TO CREDITORS Estate of Herman C. Stock Deceased Notice is hereby given by the undersigned, Administratrix of the estate of Herman C. Stock, deceased, to the creditors of and all persons having claims against the said deceased to file them with the necessary vouchers in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of the County of Orange, State of California, or to exhibit the same with the necessary vouchers to the said administrix, at her place of business, at the law office of Williams & Rutan, Room 7, Farmers & Merchants National Bank Building, in the City of Santa Ana, in the County of Orange, within four months after the first publication of this notice. Dated this 18th day of October, 1917. SOPHIE STOCK, Administratrix of the Estate of Herman C. Stock. Deceased. 10-18-5t