anaheim-gazette 1917-11-15

NEW MUNICIPAL BUILDING NOW ASSURED Continued from Page One The alley is narrow and as the cost is nominal, the work was ordered done. The work will be put in by the L. A. Paving company at the same price charged for the other alleys. Ordinance No. 320, granting the White Bus Line privilege to operate its busses on South Los Angeles street, was passed. Ordinance No. 321, prohibiting the displaying of fruits and vegetables on sidewalks and keeping all foodstuffs properly placed and screened to prevent contamination from animals, dirt, insects or flies, was introduced. Penalties for violation for first offenses are $100, or 50 days in jail, or both such fine and imprisonment. Louis Kroeger addressed the board relative to moving back his building on West Center street. He agreed to deed the city enough land for sidewalk purposes, provided the city paid for moving the building back. Mr. Kroeger's proposition was not agreed to. Kroeger maintained that all property would be benefitted and believed the city should pay for the job, but Trustee Dwyer took the opposite view, claiming each individual owner is really the gainer, and should stand the expense. Other members were of similar opinion. Mr. Kroeger has in view the renovation of the structure, and his building, together with others in the block, will no doubt be soon set back to the new sidewalk line. It was ordered that 75 feet of rope be bought for use on the motor fire truck. Contractor F. A. Wilcox was granted includes loans to the Allies, may increase even this huge sum, possibly by 100 million dollars. Expenditures nearly foot up to $30,000 every minute of the day and night. The increase in daily expenditures, it is thought, will continue to grow. A 2-billion-dollar month officials assert, is not far off. Expenditures for the fiscal year thus far have reached the total of $3,446,659,764, of which $1,770,700,000, or more than half, is represented by loans to the Allies. These loans and the interest upon them are to be repaid to the government by the borrowers and, therefore, do not represent actual expense to the American people. REFUSES TO RECOGNIZE GROWERS' ASSOCIATION President Peck of Anaheim Sugar Co., Denies a Published Statement A statement vouched for by a representative of the Associated Sugar Beet Growers of Southern California to the effect that the Anaheim Sugar company through President Peck had recognized the association was denied flat-footedly by Peck, who declared that he not only has not recognized the association, but that he also absolutely refused to recognize it. “There was a meeting between Fred Bixby, H. H. Cotton and myself,” said Peck, “and at that meeting I said that we would not recognize the association. I stated that my factory was perfectly willing to have our growers put in tare men or chemists, but I said we would not let any association representatives in the tare or chemical departments of our factory. I said that our factory would agree to have representatives put in the factory by the state or the university of California, and we would pay the cost one of the peculiar features is that attack defense are so closely allied most one and the same very attack must be predicated preparation for defense. No sooner has been taken by an advanced victors must immediately defensive, for they will sition of their enemies in the counter attack while every engagement under modern trench warfare. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Wheat acreage of the ley is greatly increased. The festival of dates crowds to Coachella. February 20-28 are the Orange show at San Benito. Palo Verde cars of his owner around $1700 cascades. Many of the farm loans of Southern California forces. Four new pig clubs have organized in the Imperial school. Coachella Valley press been ordered for America in Europe. Palo Verde valley. It has just ginned its long staple. Late gardens at San Diego visited by frosts October. Pomona is discussing of a creamery. Two are required. The cotton picking ranch harvesting is being renamed perial valley. “The biggest ever” hit to the apple show honoring San Bernardino county. Nearly $70,000 has revived Imperial Valley federal loan ban. Trustee Dwyer took the opposite view, claiming each individual owner is really the gainer, and should stand the expense. Other members were of similar opinion. Mr. Kroeger has in view the renovation of the structure, and his building, together with others in the block, will no doubt be soon set back to the new sidewalk line. It was ordered that 75 feet of rope be bought for use on the motor fire truck. Contractor F. A. Wilcox was granted a permit to build a $2100 residence on North East street for Ben Dauser. The new fire pump at the power house has not as yet been given a final test by the company installing the same, and Trustee Cook pertinently asked why the test has not been made. Somebody had better get busy. A communication was received from San Diego inviting the city council to attend the patriotic festivities to be held at Hotel del Coronado Dec. 14-17, when many men of prominence will be in attendance. In all probability a delegation of officials will attend. An indenture was received from John Cook, deeding to the city 5 feet along a five acre strip of his land on Walnut street, for sidewalk purposes. As the land is just outside the established boundaries of the city the matter was referred to the city attorney, who will take it up with the supervisors, and have it accepted by that body as a county unit. City Attorney Ames advised the board that the machinery at the power house—now brought into disuse by the furnishing of electric energy by the Edison company—can be disposed of and the proceeds from its sale put to the best advantage of the city. Since the machinery has served its purpose, and has now become obsolete, the city has the right to sell it as that would be a benefit to the city. Its purpose has been fulfilled, and since the machinery is now classed as being useless it may be sold. The machinery was purchased with funds provided by a bond issue, but the intent of the law is not that the article purchased should be used perpetually, and now that the machinery has performed its functions, and has become of no further use to the city, the board has the power to dispose of it and use the money so derived for the benefit of the municipality. Now it is proposed to use the funds from this source to help defray the cost of building a new city hall. Fred Bixby, H. H. Cotton said Peck, "and at that meeting I said that we would not recognize the association. I stated that my factory was perfectly willing to have our growers put in tare men or chemists, but I said we would not let any association representatives in the tare or chemical departments of our factory. I said that our factory would agree to have representatives put in the factory by the state or the university of California, and we would pay the cost or not pay the cost, whichever plan was most suitable. Our own growers themselves can take whatever steps they like along that line, and will meet with encouragement from us, but we want to deal with our growers and not with a concern that we have no means of knowing represents our growers. "The reason we will not recognize the association is that we prefer to deal with our growers direct. "We do not want to bind our non-association growers to the acts of this association. We have had no trouble with our growers. The association is making the cry, not our growers. We have presented a contract to the growers that we will live up to absolutely. I did say and I say again, that if there is any grower who does not like the wording of the contract he is perfectly welcome, so far as we are concerned, to have his lawyer draw up an agreement the language of which is suitable to him, provided the terms of our offer are not changed, and I will sign it." THE BARRAGE FIRE Everybody, no doubt, reads the war news in the daily papers, but many are puzzled by new methods used in modern warfare. For instance, at the business men's luncheon Thursday Corporal Cape was asked to explain the barrage or curtain of fire, and what it is like, which he did in a lucid manner. Barrage means a concentrated artillery fire along a given line so that the shells fall simultaneously and in their exploding form a perfect curtain of fire, which defies penetration by human beings. Under modern conditions the barrage is the first essential to an attack. The gunners have a definite schedule, which must be followed to the second. For instance, this curtain is let down so to speak, at a given point, directed by wireless or telephone signals or instruments either visited by frosts October. Pomona is discussing a creamery. Two are required. The cotton picking rarvesting is being renamed valley. "The biggest ever" is to be to the apple show here San Bernardino county. Nearly $70,000 has advanced Imperial Valley federal farm loan bank. Some poultrymen are with the business man Poultry producers' asses. Now comes a stock vina and reports death serious illness of a cow Sudan. The turkey growers together. Imperial coducers have organized erate in selling. The El Cajon valley county is discussing tion of wheat and a lot of ground squirrels. San Bernardino couple have organized purpose of reducing tions of citrus groves. The establishment, the university farm s being urged for the ex grounds at Riverside. The Pomona valley ers' association is a marketing of poultright members these days. Imperial valley c are discussing a coo oil mill. They assert prices in the valley lower than in Texas. THANKSGIVING DAY CAMPAE Fond mothers, wi hearts in Southern have no further fear ones in the United army will go turkey day. That a genera national bird and will be theirs is shown for bids received trade extension burger of Commerce off call for a total of turkey and 8158 queries. Bidders must make deliveries thursday Nov. 28, Now it is proposed to use the funds from this source to help defray the cost of building a new city hall. It is estimated that between $8000 and $10,000 can be realized from the sale of the equipment at the power house. Herman Backs, chief of the fire department, and Dick Fischle were in attendance at the meeting in reference to the supply of hose now on hand in the fire department. A letter had been received from the American Rubber Hose Company, advising the board that an advance of 20 per cent would soon go into effect, for rubber hose, and stated that if the city deemed it advisable to purchase a new supply they would gladly furnish the same at rates now prevailing. Mr. Backs stated that a sufficient supply of hose was now on hand, and that more need not now be purchased. The fire company is in good hands and the boys take excellent care of their equipment. Mr. Duckworth always stands for improvements and while the paving company is here he believed the time opportunity to have the short alley macadamized. "Billy" presented the case before the board in such forceful and logical manner that the councilmen readily gave their approval. He says money spent for pavement is a good investment. Uncle Sam spent one billion dollars on war in October. The total, which Barrage means a concentrated artillery fire along a given line so that the shells fall simultaneously and in their exploding form a perfect curtain of fire, which defies penetration by human beings. Under modern conditions the barrage is the first essential to an attack. The gunners have a definite schedule, which must be followed to the second. For instance, this curtain is let down so to speak, at a given point, directed by wireless or telephone signals or instruments either from an airplane scout or a concealed lookout. This curtain is advanced so many feet each minute and behind it comes the infantrymen who have gone over the top on orders, and are following this curtain of fire so closely that when it passes over a trench position which it has been shelling the occupants are not given time to reorganize their defenses after their bath of fire, and are either driven from their shelter, captured or killed by the attacking party. The barrage is then lifted and dropped at a point sufficiently far back of the line being attacked by the waves of infantry so that it bars the enemy from rushing reinforcements to the aid of the captured positions. This curtain of bursting fire and steel is kept up until the attacking party has been able to clear the captured trenches of the enemy and consolidate the position in such a way as to enable them to withstand the counterattack which it invariable made. It depends almost entirely on the success of the barrage gunners in keeping the curtain in the right place, whether the victors are given a chance to construct defenses in the form of new abatis, barbed wire entanglements and open communication trenches so as to be able to repel the attack that will come the moment the barrage is lifted. Here is one of his recent attempts to his admiration of S. "If there is any Stars and Stripes to sun kissed Southwest soft gentile, flowers the Pacific, I have hope and prayer in snows may never be That your orange olive, your walnut may never fail." One of the peculiar features of modern warfare is that attack and defense are so closely allied as to be almost one and the same thing. For every attack must be predicated on an adequate preparation for immediate defense. No sooner has a position been taken by an advance than the victors must immediately assume the defensive, for they will be in the position of their enemies by reason of the counter attack which is part of every engagement under the rules of modern trench warfare. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Wheat acreage of the Imperial valley is greatly increased. The festival of dates called large crowds to Coachella. February 20-28 are the dates of the Orange show at San Bernardino. Palo Verde cars of hogs bring the owner around $1700 cash. Many of the farm loan associations of Southern California have joined forces. Four new pig clubs have just been organized in the Imperial valley high school. Coachella Valley pressed dates have been ordered for American soldiers in Europe. Palo Verde valley, Riverside county, has just ginned its first bale of long staple. Late gardens at San Jacinto, were visited by frosts October 20. Pomona is discussing the securing of a creamery. Two thousand cows are required. The cotton picking machine plan of harvesting is being renewed in the Imperial valley. "The biggest ever" is the report as to the apple show held at Yucaipa, San Bernardino county. Nearly $70,000 has recently been advanced Imperial Valley farmers by the federal farm loan bank. may never cast their fruit. That your fields may continue to fill your granaries with golden grain. That the reservoirs of snow and ice in the mountains may always water your gardens and keep this beautiful spot a dreamland paradise forever." Nothing half hearted about that! FRUIT GROWERS CONVENTION Three topics of vital importance to the growers of the state will be discussed at the 50th annual fruit growers convention to be held in Sacramento Nov. 21 to 23, according to the program received from the state commissioner of horticulture. The high lights of the program are the farm labor problem, fruit standardization and cooperative marketing. The labor problem is given the whole of the third day, Friday, Nov. 23, and will be handled from the standpoint of national need. No greater problem is before the growers of the state. They are urged to raise more than ever before while confronted by the greatest shortage of labor they have ever known. The speakers are some of the most prominent growers in the state, among whom may be mentioned C. C. Teague of Santa Paula, M. F. Tarpey of Fresno, A. L. Wisker of Grass Valley, Phil Baiser of Visalia and others. It is expected that some action by the authorities will result from the free expression of opinion of the farmers on the labor shortage. The convention opens on Wednesday morning Nov. 21st. After the usual opening addresses, Commissioner Hecke will make his annual report to the growers. The remainder of the morning session being taken up by the representatives of the agricultural societies and associations who will make short talks on the activities and successes of their organizations. On Wednesday afternoon there will the experiment. The camphor tree thrives in many parts of Southern California, attaining good growth in relatively short time, and has proved itself to be reasonably immune from the ravages of pests. There is no good reason why high-grade camphor should not be obtained from the distillation of the leaves and twigs. We recommend to the consideration of the United States bureau of plant industry the opportunity California presents. FOOD BOARD CAN'T CONTROL BEAN PRICES Has No Authority to Fix Growers' Charges Price fixing to establish a uniform price of beans among producers is not within the authority of the food administration board, according to a statement issued in San Francisco by Ralph P. Merritt, food administrator for California, in response to requests from farmers for a fixed price on beans. Neither Federal Food Administrator Herbert C. Hoover nor Merritt is empowered to grant this request according to the statement which says in part: "The food control act does not authorize the food administration to fix prices for beans in the hands of the growers. It has responsibility of preventing distributing agencies from exacting unreasonable profits and of seeing that beans reach the consumer at as reasonable prices as is consistent with a fair profit to every necessary factor in distribution. "The food administration earnestly desires that bean growers receive a price sufficient to cover the average cost of production and a profit that will encourage them to continue growing beans next year. Any excessive charge made by the farmer is an added cost placed directly upon the con- Vienna and Saskatchewan, declares horizon intentions in sight that peace. The city would mean that military Times, whose ways been trustedworthy, esteemed impressively tech war is present only to German army there any imminent being driven France, over ports that have past week we still long and see now is not declining, thus hill, that there end is not if a decision force of armies. "No one can political comment. A revolution summably ends count on ment talks and templates may peace," to vague agree." Apparently And we must fight hard and no easy way But by fact selves for the end near complete. KILLS Poisonedimately $1 million nationally suicides reports to Visited by frosts October 20. Pomona is discussing the securing of a creamery. Two thousand cows are required. The cotton picking machine plan of harvesting is being renewed in the Imperial valley. "The biggest ever" is the report as to the apple show held at Yucaipa, San Bernardino county. Nearly $70,000 has recently been advanced Imperial Valley farmers by the federal farm loan bank. Some poultrymen are finding fault with the business management of the Poultry producers' association. Now comes a stock grower near Covina and reports death of a home and serious illness of a cow from eating Sudan. The turkey growers are now getting together. Imperial county turkey producers have organized and will cooperate in selling. The El Cajon valley in San Diego county is discussing greater production of wheat and a lesser production of ground squirrels. San Bernardino county citrus people have organized a league for the purpose of reducing assessed valuations of citrus groves. The establishment of a branch of the university farm school at Davis is being urged for the experiment station grounds at Riverside. The Pomona valley poultry keepers' association is a live wire in the marketing of poultry products of members these days of high prices. Imperial valley cotton producers are discussing a cooperative gin and oil mill. They assert that cottonseed prices in the valley are $12 to $20 lower than in Texas. THANKSGIVING DINNER IN THE CAMPS Fond mothers, wives and sweethearts in Southern California need have no further fear that their loved ones in the United States Liberty army will go turkeyless Thanksgiving day. That a generous portion of the national bird and cranberry sauce will be theirs is shown by a proposal for bids received Saturday by the trade extension bureau of the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles. This call for a total of 28,292 pounds or turkey and 8158 quarts of cranberries. Bidders must be prepared to make deliveries the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 28, at the following opinion of the farmers on the labor shortage. The convention opens on Wednesday morning Nov. 21st. After the usual opening addresses, Commissioner Hecke will make his annual report to the growers. The remainder of the morning session being taken up by the representatives of the agricultural societies and associations who will make short talks on the activities and successes of their organizations. On Wednesday afternoon there will be talks on deciduous root stocks by H. P. Stabler, Sutter county horticultural commissioner and Dr. W. L. Howard, professor of pomology, Davis farm school. Dr. H. J. Webber of the citrus experiment station at Riverside will give an address on better fruits and W. M. Metz, also of the citrus station will talk on cover crops. In the evening the standardization question will be taken up, the principal speaker being Frank P. Ripley, president and manager of a large Boston auction company. His subject will be "California Standardized Fruit and the Auction Market." The discussion will be participated in by Wm. Sproule president o the Southern Pacific, G. W. Ashley, author of the standardization bill, B. B. Meek fruit grower of Oroville, Col. J. P. Irish, farmer of Stockton and others. Thursday morning H. C. Dunlap of San Jose will speak on The Limit of Profitable Orchard and Vineyard Plantings. Then the representative of the marketing associations that are affiliated under the state market directors plan will give short reports on Cooperative Marketing, which will be followed by a review by Col. Weinstock, state market director who will speak of the Necessity, Importance and Wisdom of Farmers Cooperative Marketing. Thursday afternoon will be taken up by an excursion to the university farm at Davis, while in the evening the Russian situation will be explained by Major Stanley Washburn of the United States army and representatives of the Russian Embassy. The convention will close with a banquet Friday night, following a day spent in discussing the labor problem as already noted. The principal speakers will be E. J. Wickson, Editor, San Francisco, Rbbert Devlin, attorney, Sacramento, Marshall DeMott, chairman state board of control and A. H. Naftzer, vice president of the state council of defense. THE food administration earnestly desires that bean growers receive a price sufficient to cover the average cost of production and a profit that will encourage them to continue growing beans next year. Any excessive charge made by the farmer is an added cost placed directly upon the consumer. Speculation and hoarding by dealers are now prohibited by law and all dealers and wholesalers are operating under rigid rules in effect since November 1." Merritt's statement said that the enormous increase in Colorado, New Mexico and California more than offset shortages in New York and Michigan bean crops. BAD HOMBRES Jose Estrada says that Antonio Gonzales, Ramon Torres and Francisco Bargas held him up, beat him and robbed him of $23. The three Mexicans accused by Estrada say that Estrada is a bad hombre, and to save possible shooting they merely searched him for a gun, but took no money. Sherriff Jackson and two deputies were called to Talbert Saturday night. Estrada showed a bump on his head, and said he had been hit. He knew who his assailants were. The sherriff and Estrada found the three men walking along the road. Gonzales had $160 in gold and $3 in silver on him. At the jail one of the Mexicans tried to rid himself of a purse with about $20 in it. The purse was found by Jailer Lacy. It was in the man's pants' leg caught in the top of the man's shoe. The three accused men were charged with robbery, and their preliminaries are set for Nov. 20. OVER-CONFIDENCE It is a truth familiar to all devotees of athletic sports that one of the greatest perils to success is over-capidence. The American people have seemed lately to be courting this peril with regard to the war. Perhaps they have been encouraged thereto by over-optimistic reports in the press. However that may be, it is well for everybody concerned to get the whole acting unreasonable profits and of seeing that beans reach the consumer at as reasonable prices as is consistent with a fair profit to every necessary factor in distribution. "The food administration earnestly desires that bean growers receive a price sufficient to cover the average cost of production and a profit that will encourage them to continue growing beans next year. Any excessive charge made by the farmer is an added cost placed directly upon the consumer." Speculation and hoarding by dealers are now prohibited by law and all dealers and wholesalers are operating under rigid rules in effect since November 1." Merritt's statement said that the enormous increase in Colorado, New Mexico and California more than offset shortages in New York and Michigan bean crops. Fifty point Paris green senate of angues or mixture to dough brow molasses, teas, add Distributive interest sprinkle lime out the fainting be obtained falfa meal. With this rected cattle or fish in the field The mastfield immigrant If, however,the house reached off it. IT As to tiller attaining ference or would attend of the picture figure producingthe same head exp good prices we war,the report on conducted Great No... ONDROPBACK the army will go turkeyless Thanksgiving day. That a generous portion of the national bird and cranberry sauce will be theirs is shown by a proposal for bids received Saturday by the trade extension bureau of the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles. This call for a total of 28,292 pounds of turkey and 8158 quarts of cranberries. Bidders must be prepared to make deliveries the morning of Wednesday, Nov. 28, at the following camps in the following proportions: - Camp Kearney, Linda Vista, 25,100 pounds of turkeys and 7000 quartes of cranberries; Fort Rosecrans, 1463 pounds of turkeys, 360 quartes of cranberries; Camp Taliaferro, San Diego, 1550 pounds of turkeys, 300 quartes of cranberries; Fort McArthur, 1905 pounds of turkeys, 448 quartes of cranberries; Camp Beacon, Calefico, 274 pounds of turkeys and 50 quartes of cranberries. There is a chance that the soldier boys may get more turkey and sauce, or less, as it is stated in the specifications that the quantities named may be increased or decreased to an extent not exceeding 20 per cent, should the interests of public service demand SUNDAY LIKED IT HERE Here is one of Billy Sunday's most recent attempts to give expression to his admiration of Southern California: "If there is any place beneath the Stars and Stripes that can surpass this sun kissed Southwest, fanned by the soft gentile, flower-scented breezes of the Pacific, I haven't seen it. My hope and prayer is that the frosts and snows may never blight your fair land. That your orange, your lemon, your olive, your walnut and your fig trees may never fall. That your vineyards United States army and representatives of the Russian Embassy. The convention will close with a banquet Friday night, following a day spent in discussing the labor problem as already noted. The principal speakers will be E. J. Wickson, Editor, San Francisco, Robert Devlin, attorney, Sacramento, Marshall DeMott, chairman state board of control and A. H. Naftzger, vice president of the state council of defense. The program differs to a considerable extent from the usual fruit growers convention. As an innovation consideration of the fundamental problems of the fruit industry has displaced the usual discussion of cultural subjects. Special rates of a fare and a third for the round trip will be given on all lines. WHY NOT Having in view the adaptability of the camphor tree to this climate, as is witnessed by its sturdy growth wherever it is planted in this section, it seem that advantage might be taken of the fact in the establishment of a new industry. The world's trade in camphor long has been controlled by the Japanese. There is no reason why the American market should not be supplied by camphor of domestic production. The United States bureau of plant industry has been experimenting in Florida, and has reached the conclusion that the industry could be made economically profitable. We could wish the federal government would conduct more of these agricultural experiments in California. Indeed here the government would have found great encouragement for OVER-CONFIDENCE It is a truth familiar to all devotees of athletic sports that one of the greatest perils to success is over-cadence. The American people have seemed lately to be courting this peril with regard to the war. Perhaps they have been encouraged thereto by over-optimistic reports in the press. However that may be, it is well for everybody concerned, to get the whole matter straight and adopt a wiser view. The German successes on the Italian front may serve to jar us out of our attitude of too great optimism. There are, indeed, great and cumulative grounds for optimism. Our people have responded nobly with men, money, labor and enthusiasm. The nation is unified and strengthened as never before. Our vast preparations are moving rapidly and admirably. The U-boat menace has been sufficiently curbed to give assurance that it will never be an unsurmountable obstacle. The German military strength is plainly ebbing, and German morale is weakening. The British and French have been gaining notable victories. The Russian situation is bad, but not hopeless. Everything together points unmistakably to steady and victorious progress on the part of the allies. New nations are joining us, one by one, and it begins to look as if the whole world may eventually take up arms to beat back the scientific barbarism of Central Europe. Everything is "coming our way." But let us not expect that everything we hope for will arrive immediately. There is no assurance that the end will come soon. Germany is still powerful. It is a long, hard road to Berlin and Young Marketers Given Careful Attention Only the Most Satisfactory Meats Go Into Their Baskets Anaheim Cash Market 109-111 N. Los Angeles St. Vienna and Sofia and Constantinople. Lloyd George, in a striking utterance, declares: "I have scanned the horizon intently, and can see no terms in sight that will lead to an enduring peace. The only terms now possible would mean merely an armed truce." The military expert of the New York Times, whose war comment has always been conspicuously sober and trustworthy, writes: "No more erroneous impression is possible than that teh war is practically over, that there remain only the finishing touches. The German army is not defeated, nor is there any immediate prospect of its being driven across Flanders and France, over the Rhine, as some reports that have been printed in the past week would indicate. The way is still long and tortuous. All that we see now is that the German army is declining, that German is going down hill, that the end is inevitable. But the end is not yet, nor is it in sight, if a decision is to be produced by force of arms." "No one can forsee," he adds, "what political conditions may bring about." A revolution in Germany would presumably end the war. But we cannot count on that. The German government talks peace, but is plainly contemplates nothing but a "German peace," to which the allies can never agree." Apparently we must fight it out. And we must make up our minds to fight hard and pay the cost. There is no easy way to the victory we seek. But by facing gacts and steeling ourselves for the ordeal, we may bring the end nearer and make success more complete. KILLS ALFALFA CUTWORMS Poisoned bran mash, costing approximately $1 per acre, has been exceptionally successful in killing alfalfa cutworms in Arizona, according to reports to the United States department of Mr. Hill's demonstrations remain. Let us refer to them, with some comments made by a believer in fertilizers. In one year James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railway demonstrated that he could practically double the yield of wheat, barley and oats, by the use of commercial fertilizers. These experiments were tried on five acre plats (and not 1000 square feet); 151 plots covering 755 acres in all, scattered along the line of the Great Northern Railway in Minnesota and North Dakota, the most extensive practical experiment in the use of commercial fertilizer the world has ever seen. Each acre received $5.39 worth of fertilizer and with the following result: The average production of fields in Minnesota and North Dakota without fertilizers, as per the United States census report, was: Wheat 15.8 bushels per acre, barley 21.9, oats 31. In Mr. Hill's experimental plots with KILLS ALFALFA CUTWORMS Poisoned bran mash, costing approximately $1 per acre, has been exceptionally successful in killing alfalfa cutworms in Arizona, according to reports to the United States department of agriculture. About 98 percent of the larvae were killed by this treatment, and arsenate of lead seemed to be fully as effective as Paris green in the experiments. It was possible to tell three days after a field had been treated whether or not the method was effective. The following is the standard formula for preparing poisoned mash for this purpose: Fifty pounds of wheat bran; 2 lbs. Paris green or 4 pounds powdered arsenate of lead; 6 finely chopped oranges or lemons. Bring the whole mixture to the consistency of a stiff dough by the addition of low grade molasses, such as is used in cattle raions, adding water when necessary. Distribute this bait by broadcasting over the infested field, taking care to sprinkle it thinly but evenly throughout the field. In case bran can not be obtained readily, middlings or alfalfa meal may be substituted. With this mash distributed as directed there is no danger of poisoning cattle or domestic animals that graze in the field where it has been placed. The mash should be scattered in the field immediately after it is prepared. If, however, it is left standing about the house it should be kept out of the reach of children. IT PAYS TO FERTILIZE As to the advisability of using fertilizer at present prices there is difference of opinion, but if the producer would at the same time consider prices of the product he has to sell he could figure most satisfactory war profit, producing more with the same labor, the same water and the same overhead expense by slight investment in good fertilizers. Before fertilizer prices were so high, in fact, before the war, there appared in World's Work report of some of the demonstrations conducted by James J. Hill of the Great Northern Railway. The lessons Great Northern Railway in Minnesota and North Dakota, the most extensive practical experiment in the use of commercial fertilizer the world has ever seen. Each acre received $5.39 worth of fertilizer and with the following result: The average production of fields in Minnesota and North Dakota without fertilizers, as per the United States census report, was: Wheat 15.8 bushels per acre, barley 21.9, oats 31. In Mr. Hill's experimental plots with fertilizers there were produced: Wheat 30 bushels per acre, an increase of 89.8 per cent; barley 47 bushels, an increase of 114.6 per cent; oats 71 bushels, an increase of 119 per cent. The grain in each case from the fertilized plots was much superior in quality and brought a higher price. This says nothing about the better condition the land was left in for future crops, and was an experiment of only one year's duration. It is the experience the world over, that, where good commercial fertilizers are used intelligently, that not only are larger yields and of better quality obtained, but the land steadily increases in productivity. Does it pay? In our opinion Mr. Hill has fully answered the question by practically doubling the yield of wheat, barley and oats on 151 different farms, in one year's experimenting with commercial fertilizers. Suppose the California sugar beet grower and the bean grower should do as Mr. Hill has done, double their yield at an expense of only $5.39 per acre? It is noted in the above that Mr. Hill's experiments were not reported with test plots under similar conditions. But they are compared with "average" productions of fields in Minnesota and North Dakota without fertilizers. Now then "average" productions of all crops are very low and perhaps these Hill demonstrations might have been under naturally much better conditions. However, there is a lesson in it and while the figures may not be absolute the lesson remains most forceful. Saturday evening, November 17th the ladies of the Santa Maria church of Fullerton will have their annual bazaar and give a chicken dinner at 212 North Spadra avenue. Saturday evening, November 17th the ladies of the Santa Maria church of Fullerton will have their annual bazaar and give a chicken dinner at 212 North Spadra avenue. 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