anaheim-gazette 1917-11-01

ST. JOHN'S BREAD AS A FORAGE PRODUCT VALUABLE TREE THAT PROMISES TO TAKE PROMINENT PLACE IN ORANGE COUNTY SUPPOSED TO BE THE HONEY THAT SUSTAINED ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST IN THE WILDERNESS The carod (ceratonia ciliqua), often called St. John's bread as it was supposed to furnish the honey which St. John the Baptist fed on in the wilderness, is a fine large evergreen tree of a very attractive glossy green appearance, producing long, thick pods. Orange county is the home of this product, having taken first prize at the recent San Francisco Land show. Outside of its great value as a forage plant in California it makes a fine tree for street planting and should be used more extensively on the roadsides of the country. When once established it will stand more drouth and heat than probably any other tree. It is, in fact, a desert tree. It is a native of the Mediterranean countries, and the bean is one of the chief exports of the Island of Cyprus, Sicily and Algeria. What is attracting the attention of many men in California just now is its very evident future value to California as a forage crop of the first importance. It is a foregone conclusion that any really good forage crop which can has had considerably trouble on this account. If bottom heat can be supplied in a propagating house it is advisable. In planting out the trees set them 25 to 30 feet apart and be sure to break the ground up well below first, using dynamite if the ground is very hard. The natives of Spria set up the young trees in pots made of cow dung so as not to disturb the roots. These pots, of course, soon disintegrate in the ground. There are several different varieties of carob trees. Some are monoecious; that is, having the pistils and stamens on the same tree. Some have the pistils and stamens on the same flower. There are a number of these trees hereabouts. Most of them, however, are dioecious; that is, having the pistils and stamens on separate trees. Dr. Aaronshon of Palestine claims that the dioecious trees are the best. I think many of our trees now growing in California came from pods imported by different parties from Syria or Cyprus for eating purposes. The Italians and Spanish especially are very fond of the pods and they can sometimes be bought in the stores in the Spanish quarter. There were until just recently two fine trees at Fourteenth and Main streets, Los Angeles, planted in 1884 supposedly by Dr. Scholl. One of these trees was a staminate tree and never bore fruit. There is a handsome staminate tree at the southwest corner of Westlake park, Los Angeles, probably a seedling from these trees. Seedling trees usually produce an excess of staminate trees, but these can be very easily budded to female stock, leaving a male branch for fertilization in every few trees. It would however, pay to bud all trees over into some extra good bearing tree and put a male bud into every fifth tree or so along with the female bud. The crop will be between 100,000 tons short. Ituted to the unusually dry, followed by a period of extremely early in June and a very mer. The plant of the Southern Sugar company will have run and the Los Alamitos will have the longest mills have brought in so from outside the county, able tonnage has been to the counties to the mills of Can Beet Sugar company by Oxnard, the value of which offset that shipped in fr It is, in fact, a desert tree. It is a native of the Mediterranean countries, and the bean is one of the chief exports of the Island of Cyprus, Sicily and Algeria. What is attracting the attention of many men in California just now is its very evident future value to California as a forage crop of the first importance. It is a foregone conclusion that any really good forage crop which can be raised without constant expense of resowing, cultivating, etc., is a sure winner, and that is just what can be said for the carob. Not only that, but it can be grown on land which will raise only indifferent hay or grain crops, and do well there, such as dry mesa land where the soil is of good depth but the rainfall too unreliable. It will do well anywhere that the eucalyptus will grow; in fact, it will grow and thrive where the eucalyptus will not even grow. It will stand a temperature of 18 or 20 degrees when mature. As a forage crop the carob bean is fully equal to barley and superior to oats. That sounds like a startling statement, but it is proved by comparing its components and be demonstration. From the Berkeley experiment station Bulletin No. 271, on feeding dairy calves, we find that the result of testing on 14 calves fed for 13 weeks, one lot on carob pods and milo and the other lot fed barley and milo, that the calves fed on the carob mixture all made considerably better gains than those fed on the barley mixture. The sugar content of the carob will run at least 40 per cent. According to different tests made by the United States government and by other parties, the average value runs about 8 per cent protein and 40 to 45 per cent sugar content. Even at 8 per cent protein and 45 per cent sugar it will make a very good showing compared with either barley or wheat. Taken all in all, the carob pod when fed with hay makes a very well balanced ration and will prove a boon to raisers of hogs, sheep and cattle. Many tons are used annually in England for fattening sheep and steers, also for feeding horses, and when the carob is fed no other feed is given except hay or green food. The same use of the carob is made in Italy, France and Spain. This is the advice of C. W. Beers, horticultural commissioner of Santa Barbara. Mr. Beers has made quite a study of these trees and has been trying for some little time to get them grown commercially, and much credit it is due him on this account. Seedling trees will bear in five or six years; grafted trees somewhat earlieg. Seedling trees will bear, on an average, from 200 to 500 pounds a tree and at, say 48 trees to the acre, will yield five to ten tons to the acre. Grafted trees are reported by Dr. Aaronshon of Palestine to bear as much as 1100 pounds each. At an average of 800 pounds a tree for grafted trees we would have, allowing 48 trees to the acre, 19 tons of beans, a truly magnificent yield. Of course this would only be produced from beans of about eight years old. Grafted trees should bear at least 10 tons to the acre at a conservative estimate. Dr. Breuil of France gives the yield of the carob at 220 pounds and up a tree in Southern France. He also states that some trees have produced as high as 3040 pounds. He says the trees grow in Southern France in any soil except very stiff clay or wet ground. The pods can be fed to the older stock just as they are, but as the seed contains a large proportion of the proteins and is so hard that it is not easily digested, some process which will crush the seed is advisable. The United States experiment station in Honolulu experimented on the algaroba bean with various methods of grinding and had a great deal of trouble with the ordinary machinery, as, on account of the high sugar content, the rollers would soon become gummed up. They state they now have a machine which will do the work very satisfactorily by means of a very fine spray of water kept on the rollers, not enough to hurt the pods, but just enough to prevent gumming. The feed companies in Honolulu The price of beets will be $8, which is much higher before received by the grower 1918 contract, however, not fered to growers, guaranite higher price, as the minimum per cent beets will be $8 and more if sugar goes high cents per pound. This rate increase of 55 per cent of previous minimum for beet test. The rate of pay to factor this year was greatly increased previous years. Other expenses fuel, coke, lime rock, chee etc., which always reach portions, were unusually low year due to the price of articles having increased by cent. The item of freight alone factories will probably rise $1,100,000 and $1,200,000 tories have supplied the most of the necessary filaments bringing labor Mexico. The growers were assisted in harvesting ther action of the factoring labor. The factories report he beet seed supply for 1918 but that the cost of seed ed than it was last season price ranged between $2 bag. The seed is being grown by the growers for next year's price of 12 cents per portles taking the loss rethe difference between them and the price charged ers. "Had it not been for the beet sugar many parts of would recently have been get sugar," said one producer "Beet sugar has been ther standing between the peanut sugar famine, and this wihe next few months. Thi Taken all in all, the carob pod when fed with hay makes a very well balanced ration and will prove a boon to raisers of hogs, sheep and cattle. Many tons are used annually in England for fattening sheep and steers, also for feeding horses, and when the carob is fed no other feed is given except hay or green food. The same use of the carob is made in Italy, France and Spain. In Honolulu the Algaroba sells for $32,500 a ton in the feed stores and is the main food product of the island. The Algaroba, while of the same family as the carob bean, is far inferior in many ways and is not so well suited to dry culture. The famous Arab horses are raised on the carob. As a grain feed about six pounds a day to the horse seems to be the average ration. The carob is grown best from seed, though it can be grown from cuttings. While cuttings grow fast, they do not make suitable roots for dry planting. As is well known, all seedling carob plants produce a long tap root and care, of course, should be taken to preserve as much of this as possible. The methods of growing the plants from seed, which seems to be the most recommended, is to place the pods on edge in the ordinary nursery flat and cover with light soil or sand, transplanting when true leaves are developed. This method undoubtedly prevents much of the damping off so common to seedlings and to which the carob little plants will ETAOIN123456 66 is apparently very susceptible. It is, however, rather a slow process, as the little plants will keep coming out over a period of several years. Seeds handled in this way are apt to rot in the pods if the weather should be unduly cold and damp. The writer They state they now have a machine which will do the work very satisfactorily by means of a very fine spray of water kept on the rollers, not enough to hurt the pods, but just enough to prevent gumming. The feed companies in Honolulu have adopted this method with complete success. It would be a very easy matter to equip some of the mills here to do this. Mr. Beers reports meal from pods of the carob, set to Honolulu to be ground, has been received, and he thinks it could be made very popular as a breakfast food. There is no question as to the popularity of the pods with all stock, chickens, etc.; when they once taste it they will drop anything they have for it, like cat after fish. Taking all of these plain facts into consideration without wanting to exaggerate in any way, does it not seem strange that this section of the country, with so much dry, unirrigated and unused because of undependable rainfall, has not appreciated the value of the carob as a forage crop. But it will be appreciated in the near future, I feel sure, as interest is fast awakening... Mr. and Mrs. Ben Stroup and daughter were visiting friends in Los Angeles Sunday. Directors of the Los Angeles chamber of commerce have voted their approval of the plan to provide Los Angeles county with a county farm bureau. Although the state law appropriating $100,000 for of the state council of vided that the expenditure was not sub-state board of control a state council in carrying preparedness work shown the legislature, through only such an accounting lic interest will permit," ens has directed that all of the council during the months of its activities audited by the state board In order that the audit without loss of time. A vice chairman of the coch has placed in the hands DeMotte, recently appointed man of the control board Anaheim Gazette SUGAR FACTORIES PAY MILLIONS TO GROWERS NEARLY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS WILL BE PAID FOR BEETS IN THIS COUNTY OWING TO BAD WEATHER CROP IS CONSIDERABLY LESS THAN LAST YEAR Between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 will be disbursed to beet growers by the five sugar plants of the county when the campaign has closed, which will be within the next few weeks. The wages paid to men in the employ of the factories will exceed $1,000,000, it is estimated. With the length of the run of the different mills varying from 100 to 110 days, the factories will have sliced approximately 475,000 tons of beets when the plants will be shut down for the season of 1917. The crop will be between 75,000 and 100,000 tons short. This is attributed to the unusually dry, cold spring, followed by a period of excessive heat early in June and a very warm summer. The plant of the Southern California Sugar company will have the shortest run and the Los Alamitos probably will have the longest. While the mills have brought in some tonnage from outside the county, a considerable tonnage has been shipped from the counties to the mills of the American Beet Sugar company at Chino and Oxnard, the value of which will about offset that shipped in from the outwarding the expenditures of the council up to October 16. The audit is expected to be completed within the next several days. According to a statement by Vice Chairman Naftzger, approximately $35,000 has been expended to date by the State council. Included in this sum are all expenses of the committee on resources and food supply, which has been in charge of the state wide increased food production campaign, the handling of the farm labor shortage and the making of a food supply survey inclusive of all California cities and counties; of the committee on scientific research, and of 16 other active committees of the council. The work of the committee on scientific research, recently declared by Dr. Geo. E. Hale, chairman of the research committee of the national defense council of defense, to be the foremost organization of its kind in the United States, is said to already have benefited farmers and industrial organizations of California to the extent of many hundreds of thousands of dollars. One of the biggest expenditures made by the state council, it is said, is of $7,000 for a complete military survey of the entire San Francisco bay region, from Half Moon bay to Santa Cruz. This survey is being completed by the council upon the urgent request of the U.S. war department, which was unable to detail engineers of its own for the purpose. Other expenditures said to have been made by the state council and which it is claimed were handled at a minimum of expense to taxpayers, are said to be $2300 for registering men under the federal draft act; $3071 for increased crop production and for the statewide crop and food survey; $1800 for investigation of labor and economic conditions; $1400 for military welfare and recreation work among enlisted and drafted men; $3.- Tustin lately, and we will hold him for a day or so. If he isn't better then we will have him examind for insanity." ORANGE COUNTY WANTS A FARM ADVISER Prof. Valle Finds Sentiment Among People Almost Unanimous A week of constant canvassing through Orange county has resulted in the almost unanimous decision that a farm adviser is not only needed, but that one will be employed at the earliest opportunity. Prof. R. S. Valle, of the state department of agriculture, stationed at Riverside, has been talking to farmers' meetings throughout the county for the past ten days. Meetings have been held in La Habra, Yorba Linda, Fullerton, Harper, Wintersburg, Buena Park, El Modena and Garden Grove. There are still scheduled to be held meetings in Anaheim, Greenville, Tustin and Villa Park. At nearly every place where the ranchers have met to discuss the idea an almost unanimous appeal for expert advice has been found. In some places there has been the spirit shown that the growers believe they are getting a maximum of efficiency from their labor, and that no extra expense should be incurred in hiring a man to tell them anything, but in general it is found that the cultivator realizes that there are some things he is not as familiar with as he would like to be. The proposal of the federal government to pay the salary of the farm adviser, providing 600 ranchers of the county should demand it, and that the county-be called on any to defray the office expenses of the advisor, is meeting with general approval. The board of supervisors, at their next meeting, will be tendered the special interest as the date in very important For some time the statute bows law restricting palm from one because of that the Parlatoria—the two woalm. Now comes an errumment that trolled and threw over impulse Swingle's letter: "You will be that Mr. Shank federal horticulture with me; progress in this torla blanchard in California; that this scale cated within provided strict importations. recommending tural board tions of date or held in permanent never released small lots; in be planted on and only clean these imported free from scalp for general plan." "I feel that ifification is made the feedral house mediately after unprincipled large numbers inferior variety at retail all over and the eastern county. The y not sufficient off shoots are insects,and ex- early in June and a very warm summer. The plant of the Southern California Sugar company will have the shortest run and the Los Alamitos probably will have the longest. While the mills have brought in some tonnage from outside the county, a considerable tonnage has been shipped from the counties to the mills of the American Beet Sugar company at Chino and Oxnard, the value of which will about offset that shipped in from the outside. The price of beets will average over $8, which is much higher than ever before received by the growers. The 1918 contract, however, now being offered to growers, guarantees a still higher price, as the minimum for 19 per cent beets will be $8.87 per ton, and more if sugar goes higher than 7 cents per pound. This represents an increase of 55 per cent over the previous minimum for beets of similar test. The rate of pay to factory employees this year was greatly increased over previous years. Other expenditure for fuel, coke, lime rock, chemicals, bags, etc., which always reach huge proportions, were unusually large this year due to the price for all such articles having increased 50 to 300 per cent. The item of freight alone for the five factories will probably run between $1,100,000 and $1,200,000. The factories have supplied the growers with much of the necessary field labor, in most cases bringing laborers from Mexico. The growers were materially assisted in harvesting their crops by the action of the factories in supplying labor. The factories report having their beet seed supply for 1918 now on hand but that the cost of seed is even higher than it was last season, when the price ranged between $25 and $30 a bag. The seed is being delivered to the growers for next year at the usual price of 12 cents per pound, the factors taking the loss represented by the difference between the cost to them and the price charged the growers. "Had it not been for the California beet sugar many parts of the country would recently have been unable to get sugar," said one producer lately. "Beet sugar has been the big factor standing between the people and a sugar famine, and this will be true for the next few months. This is so con- Other expenditures said to have been made by the state council and which it is claimed were handled at a minimum of expense to taxpayers, are said to be $2300 for registering of men under the federal draft act; $3071 for increased crop production and for the state wide crop and food survey; $1800 for investigation of labor and economic conditions; $1400 for military welfare and recreation work among enlisted and drafted men; $3,000 for securing Hoover food pledges and for food conservation work by the Women's Committee of the National and State Councils of Defense and $2500 for the expenses of the special petroleum investigation committee, which recently completed a report on California bil conditions, which is being used by Congress in pending oil lands legislation. Other expenses which go to make up the $35,000 so far expended include secret service work, organization of the four minute men, organization of county councils of defense, furtherance of national council's campaign for the one delivery a day movebent, for general office expenses and for a score or more of other projects dealing with state preparedness work. Commenting upon the expenditures of the state council of defense, Vice Chairman Naftzger says: "Despite the fact that the California state council has been commended on several occasions and declared by the council of National defense to be in the first rank of states in the union for scope and thoroughness of its war work, the expense to taxpayers, when compared with other states has been very low. Our total appropriation for war work is $100,000. New York has just completed a war census which cost $256,000 alone. The same state spent $150,000 for a crop and food survey. The same survey in California, which was just as thorough, cost less than $2000. The campaign for increased crop production, conducted through the committee on resources and food supply and the university, has resulted in California leading the entire nation in its increased foodstuff supply." Abong the expenditures made by the state council is also said to be $1500 for the traveling expenses of the 33 members in attending meetings of that body. One of the reasons why there have not been more frequent meetings of the entire membership of the council is said to be the heavy WAR FOOD GOOD The tip has gone forth that "war food" is not at all unpleasant food and it may be that some of the war diets and war menus now in force in Europe will find a permanent place in the national diet. For example, those who have eaten the war bread now being served in England maintain that it is actually more edible than the white bread made in America. Made from a flour of wheat mixed with barley and rice, the bread has a bit of brown tinge in color, but is not the less delectable. Moreover, it keeps better than the pure wheat bread and is more satisfying and as been pronounced by physicians to be more easily digested. Npon the staff of Herebrt C. Hoover the food administrator, are numerous experts who were employed by the Belgian relief committee in Belgium. These experts have had practical experience with war cookery, and while they do not hope to force upon the American people any long list of substitute foods, they believe they will be able to convince the American people that many of the so called war foods are really no measures of hardships, but are new discoveries in diet and foods. SHIPPING TOMATOES IN SOUTHERNCALIFORNIA Although Southern California has a larger acreage than last year it is not probable that the shipments of tomatoes will exceed the shipments of last year. Much difference of opinion is expressed on the production this year but there is general complaint and much talk of the crop being short. While some of the sections have been near normal, comments on the other districts indicate that there is not much more than half a crop. "I feel that this application is made by the feedral hoo mediately after unprincipiled in large numbers inferior variety at retail all over and the eastern county. The work not sufficient off shoots are insects, and exerted by the work of very costly dooryards, etc." Intention to support off shoots large blocks woven by the insurer. "Mr. Shimblb making great Phoenicoccus may be possible free offshoots vided they are ner. Every eater prevent the se seedling palm and I believe to cooperman Commissioners ents, I feel tha lished a most are able to en chard and to Phoenicoccus" DART MUST Man Who Retains On Trials Under Sherri S. W. Nau owe have been no McArthur to o against Vane the only man tion by the loc verbally before would not com- Some of tha answer she su found in each date that it w but through receive tha Dart was tha training did not answer continued with He was arre- Had it not been for the California beet sugar many parts of the country would recently have been unable to get sugar," said one producer lately. "Beet sugar has been the big factor standing between the people and a sugar famine, and this will be true for the next few months. This is so conclusively demonstrating the value of the beet sugar industry to the United States that it is doubtful if anyone, in politics or out, will care to stand sponsor for an attack on the industry in the future. The entire beet sugar production of the United States is being handled by the Food Administration Sugar Distributing committee." The sugar campaigns will close some time between November first and tenth. DOING EFFECTIVE WORK Although the state legislature, in appropriating $100,000 for war work of the state council of defense, provided that the expenditure of the appropriation was not subject to the state board of control and that the state council in carrying out its war preparedness work should submit to the legislature, through the governor, only such an accounting "as the public interest will permit," Gov. Stephens has directed that all expenditures of the council during the first six months of its activities are to be audited by the state board of control. In order that the audit may be made without loss of time, A. H. Naftzger, vice chairman of the council, already has placed in the hands of Marshall DeMotte, recently appointed chairman of the control board, all data re- SUPPOSED TO BE INSANE George Henry Drew, arrested by Under Sheriff Iman near the Tustin packing house on Newport road Friday afternoon, is probably a trifle insane, according to the officer. Drew has been wandering about in that district for some time, according to reports. He carried several tin tobacco cans, some partly filled, others full of old cigar stumps, and some musty bread. His clothes were dirty, and ragged. Iman says that he seemed perfectly willing to go to jail, although he said he wasn't sick. "He acted just like a sick chicken," said the sheriff. "He would stand and look at me with his head on one side, and pretty soon he'd begin to droop over farther and farther, until he nearly fell over. He said he came from Seattle last spring and from Los Angeles last spring. Drew has been scaring some of the people around Although Southern California has a larger acreage than last year it is not probable that the shipments of tomatoes will exceed the shipments of last year. Much difference of opinion is expressed on the production this year but there is general complaint and much talk of the crop being short. While some of the sections have been near normal, comments on the other districts indicate that there is not much more than half a crop. The first car was shipped from Imperial Valley June 4. Then San Pedro Hills put stock on the local market. The first car from Wilmington rolled July 7, and the first from Moneta August 11. El Monte, San Fernando Valley and Orange county have recently started shipping and will continue for a month or more if the weather is favorable. The number of cars yet to come from the principal shipping points is estimated as follows: Gardent-Moneta, 50-cars; San Fernando Valley, 30; Orange county, 200; Newmark, 16; Escondido, 40; Total, 335. It must be understood that weather conditions at this season are uncertain and heavy rains or frosts would cut the crop short. Worms which are usually troublesome in the tomatoes (especially the first ones to ripen) have caused more loss than in past seasons. DATE PALM SCALE ERADICATED Horticultural Commissioner G. H. Hecke is in receipt of a communication from W. T. Swingle of the United States bureau of plant nidustry, that the government experts have solved the problem of controlling the troublesome scales which infest the date palm. This news is received with es- hold him better then for insanispecial interest in Southern California as the date industry is becoming a very important one in this section. For some time there has been on the statute books of the state a law restricting the movement of date palms from one locality to another, because of the danger of spreading the Parlatoria and the Marlatt scales—the two worst pests of the date palm. Now comes a report from the government that these pests can be controlled and that strict watch will be kept over importations in future. Mr. Swingle's letter says in part: "You will be interested to know that Mr. Shamblin, working for the federal horticultural board in cooperation with me, reports very gratifying progress in the eradication of Parlatoria blanchardi from the date palms in California. It is highly probable that this scale will be entirely eradicated within the next year or two, provided strict control is exercised on importations. I am contemplating recommending to the federal horticultural board that in future importations of date offshoots from abroad be held in permanent quarantine and never released for distribution in small lots, in other words, that they be planted on a tract and kept there, and only clean off shoots grown on these imported trees, when declared free from scale insects, can be sold for general planting. "I feel that unless some such modification is made of the regulations of the feedral horticultural board immediately after the close of the war unprincipled importers may import large numbers of date off shoots of inferior varieties and sell them at retail all over the Imperial Valley and the eastern half of Riverside county. The present regulations are not sufficient to guarantee that such off shoots are entirely free from scale insects, and experience has shown that is garrulous beside it. But when it is finished, it either goes on being quieter than ever, or it begins spouting automobiles, trips to Europe and large knobby mansions in New York. "It takes a couple of thousand dollars, several months, and a couple of non-committal men in mud-plastered overalls to dig an oil well. They begin by going up about 80 feet. When they have finished their derrick, they hang a drill in it weighing half a ton. Then the men hitch the drill to an engine and punch a forty-two centimeter hole in the earth's crust. Sometimes, after they have been punching away for several weeks, the hole blows the derrick into the sky, utterling ruining it. Then the owner shrieks with glee and employs 500 men to catch the spouting oil in barrels. But sometimes the derrick is as good as new when the hole is finished. Then the owner curses and takes the derrick away to some other place which smells oily. "An all well with its fancy work on top clutters up the landscape a good deal, but nobody seems to mind. In Los Angeles, Cal., some of the finest residences in the city are defaced by well derricks in their back yards, but the owner of the house does not tear his hair and mourn, because his cucumber vines age getting trampled on. He merely sings a low, sweet song on the first of each month and goes down to the safe deposit vault to cut coupons. We would enjoy being a rich man and having an oil well invade our back yard. We would even consent to be a very poor man if an oil well would come and deface our asparagus bed and fill our cellar full of petroleum and our sock full of $20 gold pieces." MRS. ROSALIA PRESSEL WANTS $100,000 DAMAGES Claims Her Arrest on Poison Charge Was Malicious "I feel that unless some such modification is made of the regulations of the feedral horticultural board immediately after the close of the war unprincipled importers may import large numbers of date off shoots of inferior varieties and sell them at retail all over the Imperial Valley and the eastern half of Riverside county. The present regulations are not sufficient to guarantee that such off shoots are entirely free from scale insects, and experience has shown that the work of inspection is rendered very costly by small plantings, in dooryards, etc. It is therefore my intention to suggest that in future imported off shoots be planted only in large blocks where they can be held permanently in quarantine and observed by the inspectors. "Mr. Shimblin also finds he is making great progress in controlling Phoenicoccus marlatti and thinks it may be possible to grow Marlatt scale free offshoots from infested trees, provided they are sprayed in proper manner. Every effort is being made to prevent the spread of this scale to seedling palms in Riverside county and I believe successfully, thanks to the cooperation of Horticultural Commissioner D. D. Sharp and his agents, I feel that we will have accomplished a most gratifying result if we are able to eradicate Parlatoria blanchardi and to control completely the Phoenicoccus marlatti." DART MUST ANSWER FOR DELINQUENCY Man Who Refused to Join the Army On Trial at Fort McArthur Under Sheriff Iman and Secretary S. W. Nau of the exemption board have been notified to report at Fort McArthur to testify in the procedure against Vane V. Dart of Santa Ana, the only man summoned for mobiliza' tion by the local board who has stated verbally before the board that he would not comply with the order. Some of the men have failed to answer the summons, but it has been found in each case investigated to date that it was usually not willfully, but through ignorance or failure to receive the notice. Dart was scheduled to leave for the training camp last month. He did not answer the summons, but continued with his work in Santa Ana. He was arrested taken before the man and having an oil well invade our back yard. We would even consent to be a very poor man if an oil well would come and deface our asparagus bed and fill our cellar full of petroleum and our sock full of $20 gold pieces. MRS. ROSALIA PRESSEL WANTS $100,000 DAMAGES Claims Her Arrest on Poison Charge Was Malicious More litigation has been started in the dispute between Mrs. Rosalia Pressel, wife of Fred Pressel of this city, and her husband's relatives. Shortly after their marriage, which occurred several months ago, Mrs. Pressel declared that under a prenuptual agreement certain property belonging to Pressel was to be deeded to her. On examining the papers afterward she discovered that she had no title to the property. Then on June 2, relatives of Pressel had her arrested on a charge or attempting to poison her husband. She was incarcerated in the county jail for ten days when she was allowed to go free without bond, and in September the case against her was dismissed. Now she has brought suit against Carl and Clara Pressel, Thomas and Margaret Hoag, Katherine Bonano, claiming damages to the amount of $100,000. Half of this, she declares in her complaint, is for damages to her reputation, and half for exemplary damages. Fred Pressel's property, she states, is worth $50,000. SAVE THE WHEAT Order a "stack of corn" or a "stack of wheat" cakes at the hotel or restaurant. Pan-cakes made of corn or kafir corn or one of these grains with a little wheat flour are fully as palatable and nutritious as cakes made of wheat only, say food specialists of the United States department of agriculture. Millions of wheat cakes are consumed at the American breakfast table every morning. Get the "stack of corn" habit an dsave wheat. The department is urging restaurants and hotel proprietors to instruct their chefs to prepare and have ready for use batter for corn cakes each morning so that patrons may order corn cakes instead of wheat cakes. Corn cakes have always been popular on the family table. By featuring VERBALLY before the board that he would not comply with the order. Some of the men have failed to answer the summons, but it has been found in each case investigated to date that it was usually not willfully, but through ignorance or failure to receive the notice. Dart was scheduled to leave for the training camp last month. He did not answer the summons, but continued with his work in Santa Ana. He was arrested, taken before the local board, and in answer to all of the questions announced that he would not go to the training camp unless he was put on the train forcibly. He stated further that he would never fight. Dart was perfectly frank about his stand, and announced that he believed the present system was all wrong. He said he would fight if attacked on our own soil, but that he did not believe in going over the sea to find trouble. All records in his case will be taken over to San Pedro by Mr. Nau and by Sheriff Iman who arrested Dart. A HUMORIST ON OIL WELLS When George Fitch wrote his "Vest Pocket Essays," oil wells were not creating much attention. If he had visited well of the present day, he would not have placed such a modest figure on the cost of drilling a well. However, we all enjoy humor of his style even if it slams us a little. He wrote: "An oil well is a hole in the ground about a quarter of a mile deep, into which a man may put a small fortune or out of which he may take a big one. And he never knows until the hole is finished. Nothing is as non-commital as an oil well that isn't finished. A sphinx department of agriculture. Millions of wheat cakes are consumed at the American breakfast table every morning. Get the "stack of corn" habit an dsave wheat. The department is urging restaurants and hotel proprietors to instruct their chefs to prepare and have ready for use batter for corn cakes each morning so that patrons may order corn cakes instead of wheat cakes. Corn cakes have always been popular on the family table. By featuring "stack of corn" cakes on their menus it is believed patrons will be glad to form the "eat more corn" habit at breakfast time." SOME FOLKS BACK IN MAINE BOUGHT AN OLD HOMESTEAD AND BY RETOUCHING IT HAVE MADE BOTH MODERN CONVENIENT AND BEAUTIFUL WITHIN AND WITHOUT, AT NO GREAT COST. WHY COULD NOT SOME OF OUR NEIGHBORS DO THE SAME? PASS THE WORD ALONG GIBBS LUMBER Phone Pacific 201—Home 2664. East Broadway