anaheim-gazette 1918-02-28

PRICE OF WHEAT FIXED BY THE PRESIDENT FIGURES RANGE FROM $2 IN SPOKANE TO $2.28 PER BUSHEL IN NEW YORK LEGISLATION PENDING TO RAISE PRICE TO $3.00 HALTED BY THE ORDER A price of $2.20 a bushel—the same as for last year's crop—was fixed by President Wilson Saturday for the coming season's wheat yield. The price is for No. 1 Northern spring wheat at Chicago, with a scale of differentials for other markets. The differentials differ to a slight extent from those now operative and range from a minimum of $2 to a maximum of $2.28. In fixing a price now for the new crop, which will not be harvested until June, the president was believed to have had two objects in view. The first was to halt the legislation pending in Congress to fix the prices at from $2.25 to $3 and the other was to stimulate spring planting. The introduction of the price raising bills had begun to check the flow of wheat to market and food administration officials feared that mills soon would have to close down. Hoping the legislation would pass, farmers, it is declared, have been refusing to sell at the present price of $2.20. of the Placentia Round Table club was celebrated in the club-house. The club families were the guests of the evening and the board of trustees, Mrs. T. L. McFadden, Mrs. C. C. Chapman, Mrs. C. H. Smith, Mrs. A. J. Robinson and Mrs. S. W McColloch acted as hostesses, Miss Emily Cuff, the president, extended a welcome to the guests and spoke of the aims accomplished during the 16 years of the club's life. The beautiful home of the club has been built but that is not the greatest of its achievements. The club motto "Why Stay We on Earth Except to Grow?" expresses well the benefit which every member has received. An enjoyable program was arranged by the hostesses. Mrs. Paul V. Hester played several piano solos. Mrs. H. Sullivan read "Billy Brad and a Big Lie" and "The Haggis of Private McPhee." Miss Lucile Hemphill sang. The grammar school teachers presented a comedy "The Burglar," in which a house full of timid young women is disturbed by a burglar which, after much confusion when guns and pistols are flourished in awkward and reckless fashion, proves to be the peaceful house cat. The members of the cast were the Misses Edith Bemis, Jessie Schultz, Mabel Alvard, Sophia Reithardt and Elena Marl. At the close of the program the company gathered in social groups and was served with sandwiches and coffee. This anniversary celebration gave proof that "small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast." NEWS NOTES The annual expenditure of the United States for candy is approximately $400,000,000. The war department now permits women to qualify as inspectors of the Placentia Round Table club. ORANGE COUNTY Oppose Drainage Opposition has formation of the trict in the vicinity which would take Park section. Voiced before the of supervisors who ranchers attended torney Charles Orange county Los Angeles in land with the increasing the line of a mall but that the waist into the ocean. Haas in his Orange county posal to organize the Buena Parks. The Los Angeles concerns la side of Coyote. H. W. McKellet others voiced their formation of the sort that no benefit to them in the land and ent will be a district wou Bixby properties. On motion of the petition for drainage distribution proved and a formal hearing before the Los Angeles County Board of Public Works. The introduction of the price raising bills had begun to check the flow of wheat to market and food administration officials feared that mills soon would have to close down. Hoping the legislation would pass, farmers, it is declared, have been refusing to sell at the present price of $2.20. In enacting the food control law Congress put a guaranteed price of $2 on next season's crop and this has been construed as a minimum price. To draw wheat to market the president fixed a price of $2.20 on last season's yield and it had this effect until the price raising bills were introduced. Then the flow began to stop. Food administration officials have declared that if the bills passed the government would be forced to raise present prices to new levels and that to do so would upset the food administration's flour and bread program. On the basis of No. 1 Northern spring wheat and its equivalents, the President fixed the price as follows: Chicago, $2.20; Omaha, $1.51; St. Louis, $2.18; Kansas City, $2.15; Minneapolis, $2.17; Duluth, $2.17; New York, $2.28; Philadelphia, $2.27; Baltimore, $2.27; Newport News, $2.27; Charleston, S. C., $2.27; Savannah, $2.27; Portland, Or., $2.05; Seattle, $2.05; San Francisco, $2.10; Los Angeles, $2.10; Galveston, $2.20; New Orleans, $2.20; Salt Lake, $2; Great Falls, Mont., $2; Spokane, $2; Pocatello, Idaho, $2; Forth Worth, Tex., $2.09; Oklahoma City $2.05; Wichita, Kan., $2.08. The equivalents of No. 1 Northern, to which the same price applies are No. 1 hard winter; No. 1 red winter; No. 1 durum and No. 1 hard white. The wheat must be harvested in the United States during 1918 and sold in the market before June 1, 1919. The president's proclamation states that the action is to meet an emergency requiring the stimulation of wheat planting. MADE-IN-GERMANY LIES Canada is also having trouble with Made-In-Germany lies calculated to hinder Canadian food conservation according to an official statement received from the Canadian food controller by the United States food administration. NEWS NOTES The annual expenditure of the United States for candy is approximately $400,000,000. The war department now permits women to qualify as inspectors of small arms, according to an announcement by the civil service commission. Before the war the navy's bureau of identification had the finger print records of 300,000 men. In the last year the number has increased to about 600,000. In taking the finger print record of the navy recruit the impressions of all 10 fingers are obtained. Plans for the aerial mail route between Washington, Philadelphia, and New York contemplate the use of machines capable of carrying 300 pounds of mall a distance of 200 miles without a stop. A special postage rate will be charged not exceeding 25 cents an ounce. In reply to inquiries regarding the possibility of redistilling seized spirits for alcohol the war department has announced that the small amount of alcohol recovered, the cost of transportation, re-cooperage, and redistilation would make the cost to the government greater than it is now paying. The average yield from confiscated liquor would not exceed 5 per cent of alcohol. There is no standard recipe for "victory bread," the only requirement being that it must contain not more than 80 per cent of wheat flour, the remaining 20 per cent being composed of corn meal or corn flour, rice, potato flour, or other cereals recommended by the food administration. "Victory" pies and doughnuts, which contain not less than one third nonwheat flour, may be sold on wheatless days if the same recipes are used throughout the week. SUGAR SITUATION In spite of talk of a probable shortage in beet sugar this year, the outlook is actually quite favorable; sugar men say, and the refiners anticipate a heavy tonnage. George Phillips, a Pomona rancher, who has leased 500 acres of irrigable gathered in social groups and was served with sandwiches and coffee. This anniversary celebration gave proof that "small cheer and great welcome make a merry feast." A Busy Burglar: Tuesday night three places at L with something and some jewel half gallon of lion of cream. Before doing visitor got into smith shop, where wood chisels wipe open doors to La Habra store, entered door he got $1 cheap jewelry four lavellers and Grant Sherman tered through the ed chisels, and glar carried away $2 in nickels. Caller revolver. At T. A. Herd served himself half gallon of coff fresh cream the opinion of Maxwell and Uman who invest the burglar draint is gone, an dthe At the restaurant through the r pass key,the bank containing bank and its co. The burglar tried to enter O man who slept awakened by so barked,and tha more.The water burglar. Oil Workers Geen The Union Ofnia has just issueto its employeesthe amount of This dividendand is given to served the comyear.Empoythe company's were paid 10 nual wages;mthe service tw MADE-IN-GERMANY LIES Canada is also having trouble with Made-in-Germany lies calculated to hinder Canadian food conservation according to an official statement received from the Canadian food controller by the United States food administration. The stories bothering Canada are of the same general character as those of the United States food administrator recently denounced in this country, such as the ridiculous salt and blueing famine fakes and the report that the government would seize the housewives' stocks of home canned goods. The Canadian food controller estimates that when the people listen to and pass on such stories, each one has the power of destruction that lies in battalion of soldiers. "Stories without even a vestige of foundation have been scattered broadcast," said the Canadian statement. "Nor have they come to life casually. They have started simultaneously in different parts of the country and in each instance have been calculated to arouse public indignation." "They are insidious, subtle, persistent. Bit by bit they dissipate public trust, the great essential in the work of food control." "It lies with every individual to bear from criticism; to refrain from passing on the vagrant and harmful story, and thus the more effectively to cooperate in work which is going to mean more than the majority of people yet realize." ROUND TABLE ANNIVERSARY Wednesday evening the anniversary SUGAR SITUATION In spite of talk of a probable shortage in beet sugar this year, the outlook is actually quite favorable, sugar men say, and the refiners anticipate a heavy tonnage. George Phillips, a Pomona rancher, who has leased 500 acres of irrigable land to the American Beet Sugar Co. of Chino for a term of years, says that the sugar companies are figuring that the beet acreage in Southern California this year will be about three-fourths of the acreage planted last year, but that with anything like reasonable cultural conditions the tonnage ought to be enough heavier to offset the difference in acreage. Last year's beet-tonnage was light because of hot weather and inability of the growers to secure beet thinners at the proper time. J. W. Jones of the United States department of agriculture in Salt Lake City, reports that the ranchers in Utah are planting at least one third more beet acreage than they cultivated last year. This is because new land is being brought under cultivation, and beets on cheap land are particularly profitable just now. With a normal tonnage in Southern California and a great increase in the Utah acreage, there ought to be plenty of sugar this year. Since Southern California's dry spell has been broken many farmers are seriously considering beet growing, who had almost entirely abandoned the idea before last week's rains came. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Spencer of Chino were week end guests with relatives here. The Union Orchard has just issued its employees the amount of cash it will serve the company's annual wages; more than on the company's past year were paid per cent bonus; the company's title to dividend that number wilt and received the bonus. The great amends here show Union employees of men, who beers and are staunch. The total amends paid by the company amounts to 1000 of this amount in the local field an annual affair suits of an employee adopted by ago, and is worth satisfactory mans pany and its hoo. Big Money for Porks Pockets of the Growers associate a total of $603,247 just closed, accrue the annual meet. This is the figure for all varieties of Iowa: Valencias $42,844.98, sweet ORANGE COUNTY NOTES Oppose Drainage Ditch: Opposition has developed to the formation of the big drainage district in the vicinity of Artesia and which would take in part of Buena Park section. This opposition was voiced before the Los Angeles board of supervisors when more than 100 ranchers attended the meeting. Attorney Charles E. Haas stated that Orange county is preparing to join Los Angeles in draining swampy land with the ultimate object of increasing the beet output. He denied that the district would end at the line of a millionaire corporation, but that the water would be dumped into the ocean. Haas in his statement concerning Orange county referred to the proposal to organize a district to drain the Buena Park and Cypress sections. The Los Angeles county project concerns lands on the opposite side of Coyote creek. H. W. McKelvey of Hines and others voiced the objections of the formation of the district. They asserted that the district would be of no benefit to the people interested in the land and that taxes at present will be a burden; further, that the district would not take in the Bixby properties. On motion of Supervisor Dolorey, the petition for teh formation of the drainage district, No. 4, was approved and a date will be set for a formal hearing of the protestants before the Los Angeles Supervisors. A Busy Burglar: Tuesday night a burglar entered three places at La Habra, and got away with something over $6, a recoiler or variety $1,662.27, refund $26625. The auditor's report gave the above figures, shows the total cash receipts at $952,157.69 and the total disbursements at $848,386.89 of which $603,-286.56 was paid to the growers. During the year the association handled 518,602 field boxes of fruit which were packed into 324,411 boxes for shipment, totalling 819 cars. The packing expense averaged a trifle over 33 cents a box, this remarkably low sum being attributed to the advantage of a large association in operating. The S. O. G. A. numbers 268 members. Thus the growers received a packing refund of $26,625, which sum represents the difference between the actual cost of packing and what is appropriated for the purpose at the start of the season, plus the sum received from the Orange County Fruit Growers Exchange on their expense account. Investigate Fish Disease: Representatives from the State Fish and Game Commission visited Newport, East Newport and Balboa Beach recently, investigating reports that the mussel beds at the mouth of Newport Bay and shell fish and small fish in the open were being destroyed by the lime sewage from sugar factories. As the factories have now ceased operations for the season, the commission reports the matter closed until the opening of the 1918 sugar season, when arrangements have been made to keep a close watch on all such sewage finding its way into the bay or ocean. Samples will be taken for analysis.* Woman is Insane: Ambrosia Quintero, charged with the murder of her sister at their home near Delhi last September, was on Wednesday found insane before Judge to set out walnut nursery stock that is three years old. Forty feet apart each way is a good method of setting a young grove of trees. This gives 28 trees to the acre. The holes should be about two and one half feet across and three feet deep. Before any planting is done the ground should be plowed deep and gone over with pulverizer. If the ground is not moist put about 20 gallons of water in each tree hole and press the dirt firmly around the roots. Any good rich loam which is free from hardpan is suitable for walnut growing, providing the district does not have excessive hot or cold weather, says Howard C. Kegley. There are countless varieties of walnuts, and each locality seems to have some favored type of tree, because of resistance to parasites, heat, cold or drought. The best thing to do in deciding what varieties to set out is to go to the best walnut growers in the district where you intend to create your grove, and ascertain what varieties they have had the best success with. Learn the reasons for their success and compare their results with those obtained by growers in districts similarly located. Compare your results and you should be able to decide upon the wisest course without difficulty. The 1917 season just past was an unusually favorably one for the harvesting walnuts. There was only one shower. For several weeks the weather was dry and warm, and the usual amount of waste from mold, popping open and water soaking was not in evidence. Growers are learning that it pays them to have the pickers go through the groves at least every ten days during the harvest season. Some picking gangs do not like to cover the ground so often, and it is frequently necessary to pay them more money in or- Blixby properties. On motion of Supervisor Dolorey, the petition for teh formation of the drainage district, No. 4, was approved and a date will be set for a formal hearing of the protestants before the Los Angeles Supervisors. A Busy Burglar: Tuesday night a burglar entered three places at La Habra, and got away with something over $6, a revolver and some jewelry, to say nothing of hal fa gallon of coffee and half a gallon of cream. Before doing his burglarizing, the visitor got into the McAlister blacksmith shop, where he picked out two wood chisels with which he pried open doors to two otaer places. At the La Habra Mercantile Company's store, entered by way of the front door, he got $1 in small change, some cheap jewelry, a gold wrist watch, four lavallers and a dozen earbobs. Grant Sherman's poolroom was entered through the use of the borrowed chisels, and in that place Mr. Burglar carried away $3 in pennies and $2 in nickels. He also pocketed a 38-caliber revolver. At T. A. Hersey's restaurant he served himself with refreshments. A half gallon of coffee and a half gallon of fresh cream are missing and it is the opinion of Deputy Sheriff C. C. Maxwell and Under Sheriff J. H. Iman, who investigated the case, that the burglar drank it all. Anyhow, it is gone, an dthe containers remain. At the restaurant, which was entered through the rear door, opened by a pass key, the burglar found a child's bank, containing eight cents. The bank and its contents are gone. The burglar is supposed to have tried to enter Glazier Bros. store. A man who sleeps in the place was awakened by some noise. His dog barked, and the noise was heard no more. The watchman did not see the burglar. Oil Workers Get Bonus: The Union Oil company of California has just issued dividend checks to its employees in the local field to the amount of $25,000. This dividend is an annual affair and is given to employees who have served the company at least one year. Employees who have been in the company's service three years were paid 10 per cent of their annual wages; men who had been in the service two years received 7½ commission reports the matter closed until the opening of the 1918 sugar season, when arrangements have been made to keep a close watch on all such sewage finding its way into the bay or ocean. Samples will be taken for analysis.* Woman is Insane: Ambrosia, Quintero, charged with the murder of her sister at their home near Delhi last September, was on Wednesday found insane before Judge West in superior court. Drs. Cushman and George C. Clark composed the lunacy commission. The court directed that the woman be taken to the California state hospital at Patton. The woman has been in the county jail for several months. Her trial on the murder charge was to have opened on Tuesday in the Superior court. Near Death From Exposure: After wandering around for thirty hours, Sylvester Jones, aged 79, of Long Beach, sank down in a stupor. He was found in the middle of a big eucalyptus grove at the northwest edge of Santa Ana. Jones and his wife live at 1429 East First street, Long Beach. Wednesday morning the aged man started from his home to take a walk around town. He expected to return home soon. He lost his way and kept on walking. Probably all night long he tottered about, his childish mind not realizing his condition or recognizing that inquiry at any house he might pass would lead to giving him assistance. Thursday afternoon someone living near an eucalyptus grove near Santa Ana saw the man wander into the grove. The actions of the man aroused suspicion, and a telephone message was sent to the sheriff's office. Deputy Sheriff Cravath and Motor cycle Officer Ballard went to the place Search of the grove, probably twenty acres, offered many difficulties, for with undergrowth, a person might hide and a searcher pass within a few feet without seeing the man for whom he searched. Ballard struck the old man's tracks, and followed them to a point near the center of the grove. There, huddled upon the wet ground, was the old man, unconscious. Through utter exhaustion he had ended his hours of wanderings. Efforts to arouse the man from his stupor had some results, and later attentions revived the man so that he could give his name and address. A telephone message was sent to Long Beach and that evening commission reports the matter closed until the opening of the 1918 sugar season, when arrangements have been made to keep a close watch on all such sewage finding its way into the bay or ocean. Samples will be taken for analysis.* If the hulls stick tight it is a good plan to run them through the hulling machine, using enough water to soften the hulls quickly and then getting them away from the moisture. The method of rolling them in sacks to remove tight shucks is bad, because the hulls stain the shells badly and it costs much more to bleach the nuts. Even then their appearance is so bad that they can not be graded as high as would otherwise be the case. SANTA FE TIME TABLE (Corrected to Date) NORTHBOUND Lv. Anaheim Ar. Los Angeles 5:05 A.M. 6:00 A.M. 7:25 A.M. 8:20 A.M. 10:05 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 11:58 A.M. 12:50 P.M. 3:57 P.M. 4:50 P.M. 5:43 P.M. 6:30 P.M. SOUTHBOUND Lv. Los Angeles Ar. Anaheim 9:00 A.M. 9:45 A.m. 10:45 A.M. 11:35 A.m. 1:15 P.M. 2:02 P.M. 3:00 P.M. 3:42 P.M. 5:25 P.M. 6:14 P.M. 11:59 P.M. 1:10 A.M. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE Among the minor social gains attributable to war is the development of the United States employment service. This body is the federal job dispenser. Through a Washington bureau the government has at last gone seriously into the business of uniting work and the workless. The Union Oil company of California has just issued dividend checks to its employees in the local field to the amount of $25,000. This dividend is an annual affair and is given to employees who have served the company at least one year. Employees who have been in the company's service three years were paid 10 per cent of their annual wages; men who had been in the service two years received 7½ per cent, and employees who had been on the company's payroll during the past year were rewarded with a 5 per cent bonus. Of the 400 men on the company's payroll 250 were entitled to dividends and over half of that number were three year men and received the full 10 per cent bonus. The great amount of money received here shows very plainly that Union employees are a satisfied class of men, who believe in their employers and are staying with them. The total amount of dividends paid by the company to all its employees amounted to $202,000, $25,000 of this amount going to the men in the local field. The dividend, now an annual affair, represents the results of an employee's profit sharing plan adopted by the Union two years ago, and is working out in a most satisfactory manner to both the company and its horde of employees. Big Money for Fruit Growers: Pockets of the Santiago Orange Growers association were lined with a total of $603,286.56 during the year just closed, according to reports at the annual meeting held Thursday. This is the figure received by growers for all varieties of fruit, classed as follows: Valencias $519,920.38; navels $42,844.98; sweets $12,662.38, and others. Woman Drowned at Seal Beach: Mrs. Mary E. Binning, aged 58, a widow for 18 years, who was a tourist at Long Beach from Earlville, Ia., and lived at the Louise apartments was drowned near the mouth of Anaheim Bay Friday afternoon and the body was washed ashore about two hours afterward. She has four children, three daughters living in Iowa and a son who is a soldier at Camp Cody, Deming, N. Mex. Mrs. Binning in company with two lady friends from the same city in Iowa, came to Seal Beach last Friday to plenie and gather shells along the beach. Mrs. Binning was some distance from her companions when she slipped into a deep hole and lost her footing. The tide was running out very rapidly and carried her with it. HINTS ON WALNUT PLANTING It takes an English walnut tree five to eight years to come into bearing. Many growers contend that it is best... Farmers and the New Banking System The Federal Reserve Banking System with its thousand million dollars of resources stands back of its member banks and assists them in taking care of the needs of their depositors. Our membership in this system gives us special facilities for enabling farmers to plant, gather and store their crops. The next time you come to town stop in and let us tell you how this new system enables us to help you. MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Anaheim National Bank Send for Booklet "HOW DOES IT BENEFIT ME." given the service its sanction. Altogether, under the impulse of war, the nation is creating an instrument required as much in peace as in emergency. PEANUT GROWING IN THIS STATE A valuable food crop that might well be vastly increased in California is the peanut, which is one of the most per cent fat, 29.4 per cent protein, and 14 per cent carbohydrates, with valuable mineral matter in small quantity. Roasting makes them palatable, and eaten in this form they are nutritious and are not indigestable if well masticated and taken in moderate quantities. In the form of peanut butter they make a satisfactory substitute for butter when used with bread, adding much protein. Peanut oil is used in salads and in cooking. There was only one real week the weather warm, and the usual farm from mold, popping soaking was not in warning that it pays pickers go through every ten days duration. Some picking to cover the ground is frequently necessary more money in order to work when nuts holdily, but it generally run to get the nuts each week, because system they become on the ground, and are for weeks, taking the ground. Rain them, causing them the dampness makes it tight it is a good through the hulling through water to soften and then getting the moisture. The them in sacks tocks is bad, because shells badly and it to bleach the nuts. Appearance is so bad be graded as high as the case. TIME TABLE (and to Date) HOUND Ar. Los Angeles 6:00 A.M. 8:20 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 12:50 P.M. 4:50 P.M. 6:30 P.M. HOUND Ar. Anaheim 9:45 A.M. 11:35 A.M. 2:02 P.M. 3:42 P.M. 6:14 P.M. 1:10 A.M. MENT SERVICE Social gains at the development states employment service is the federal job through a Washington department has at last into the business of the workless. given the service its sanction. Altogether, under the impulse of war, the naflon is creating an instrument required as much in peace as in emergency. PEANUT GROWING IN THIS STATE A valuable food crop that might well be vastly increased in California is the peanut, which is one of the most nutritious of nuts. The plant belongs to the family of legumes of which the bean and the pea are other distinguished members. It is easily grown in this state, produces from 50 to 80 bushels per acre, always finds a ready market at paying prices, and is of distinct advantage to the soil because, like all legumes, its roots bear numerous tubercles through which the plant draws its nitrogen fro mthe air, writes Lillian C. Ford. Though the seeds or nuts are born underground, they develop from the blossoms, the pistils of which grow into the ground after they are fertilized. It is the lower tip of the ingrown pistil that enlarges into the pod or shell containing the peas or nuts as they are called. This method of growth indicates the culture needed: The soil, preferably one that is light and sandy, should be well worked and free from clods and roots in order that the flawer stalk may easily embed itself in it. When planted, the soil should be moist and irrigations should be frequent enough to keep it in good condition, without being too damp. A cultivation after each irrigation is necessary to prevent baking of the soil and to keep down the weeds. From three to five irrigations are usually required to mature a crop. Peanuts are shelled before planting and are dropped by hand or drilled in rows two and a half or three feet apart, with about six inches between seeds. They are planted two inches deep. Half a bushel of hulled peanuts are required to plant an acre. They may be planted at any time between April and July, the later planting often following an early crop of corn or potatoes. Peanut strow is valuable for cattle and hog feed. From one to two tons are usually produced to an acre. Plouged under, much nitrogen is returned to the soil, which fact makes peanut strow a valuable fertilizer. The food value of peanuts is very high. In these days when the conservation of fat is of paramount importance per cent fat, 29.4 per cent protein, and 14 per cent carbohydrates, with valuable mineral matter in small quantity. Roasting makes them palatable, and eaten in this form they are nutritious and are not indigestable if well masticated and taken in moderate quantities. In the form of peanut butter they make a satisfactory substitute for butter when used with bread, adding much protein. Peanut oil is used in salads and in cooking. It is much valued by French chefs for its rich nutty flavor. Its wider use in America would result in added nutrition at small expense. Many housewives grow their family supply of peanuts in the home garden, and make their own butter by putting the peanut through the food grinder. MAY MAKE CONCESSION IN FAVOR OF BEES George McPhee Says 4000 Hives In County Must be Fed In an effort to assist the bee men of Orange county in securing the necessary food to keep the swarms alive, County Sealer George McPhee has addressed the following letter to F.H. Stuffel, Los Angeles, representative of the California food administrator in Southern California: February 23, 1918. F.H. Stuffel, Los Angeles, Caalifornia. Dear Sir:-I have been requested to ascertain from you how much sugar will be allowed bee men for feed. Information requested at your earliest convenience and oblige. Yours truly, GEORGE McPHEE, There are 48 names on the membership roll of the Orange County Bee Keepers' association representing 95 per cent of the bees of the county. G.J.Brown,Tustin,was apointed purchasing agent of the association last week and it was through him that McPhee took the sugar question up with Mr.Suffel.It is said that each colony of bees requires about five pounds of sugar for the season.It is understood that Smart & Final wholesale grocers are willing to sell sugar to bee keepers for this purpose if the necessary arrangements can be made. The plan proposed for making a distribution of sugar for bee feeding purposes is to have the purchasing agent issue a requisition on th Food will win the war He who wastes a crust of bread prolongs the war don't waste it!