anaheim-gazette 1918-09-19

SIGNIFICANT FACTS ABOUT THE BEAN SITUATION Ray Nebelung Gives Some Good Advice to the Growers Bean harvesting and threshing of all varieties is at its maximum, all of the early plantings now being either harvested or ready to harvest, writes R. E. Nebelung, assistant from advisor of Los Angeles county. The later plantings will mature up until about November 1, and their success is more or less dependent upon weather conditions. During 1917, beans were left in the field much later, but as it was an exceptionally dry fall and winter, the beans suffered but little damage. During an average season there would probably be considerable loss with beans left in the field as long as many were left last year. The bean acreage of the state is increased at least 25 per cent over last year, but the total yield will probably be about the same, due to a loss of a percentage of the crop from various reasons. The limas suffered an appreciable loss in some localities, due to several hot days in July, and some loss, notably in parts of Ventura county, due to the depredations of the corn-ear worm, a rather unusual source of bean damage. Lady Washington, Pintos and some small plantings of Kentucky Wonders in Los Angeles county rusted badly and some growers estimate their loss as high as 50 per cent. What resembled a mosaic condition was also quite common on Lady Washingtons earlier in the season, and cut down the yield considerably, but an accurate estimate of this loss can hardly be made, due to the same fields becoming rusted later in the season. Teparles were host plants to the Thrips in some localities, where these beans are grown, but no serious damage from which the seed was taken. It will pay all around if we can have more selection in the field next year. FLORIDA CITRUS CROP WILL BE A HEAVY ONE Eight Million Boxes of Fruit Predicted the Coming Season Florida will have an 8,000,000 box citrus fruit crop this year, according to the statement in New York recently of Dr. J. H. Ross, president, and F. L. Skelly, salesmanager, of the Florida citrus exchange, who were in New York for two weeks. The prospects in Florida have not been as bright in several years, and the estimate is that the yield will be 60 per cent more orange and grape fruit than last season. Reporting the visit of the Florida growers, the New York Produce News in a recent issue says: Last season's shipments from the state, both oranges and grape fruit, according to Mr. Skelly, were around 5,000,000 boxes. At present estimates are merely guesswork, but both Dr. Ross and Mr. Skelly believe Florida, without any loss from unfavorable weather, will ship 8,000,000 boxes of citrus fruit this coming season. Roughly speaking, 2,500,000 boxes will be grape fruit and the balance oranges. In some sections they say the weather has been a little dry, but taking the state as a whole, conditions have been unusually favorable. Dr. Ross says the fruit is bright, clean and of good size for this time of year. The citrus canker has been practically wiped out, only a few trees having been found infested with this pest this season. The state and government officials, however, are not relaxing in their vigilance and are watching carefully for any recurrence of the trouble. The citrus crop will probably be a trifle easier than usual owing to... Kentucky Wonders in Los Angeles county rusted badly and some growers estimate their loss as high as 50 per cent. What resembled a mosaic condition was also quite common on Lady Washington earlier in the season, and cut down the yield considerably, but an accurate estimate of this loss can hardly be made, due to the same fields becoming rusted later in the season. Teaparles were host plants to the Thrips in some localities, where these beans are grown, but no serious damage has been seen, due to the lateness of the attack and the fact that some growers sprayed where conditions warranted. Henderson Bush were in a few instances attacked by red spider, but the spider did not become a general menace. Black Eyes seemed to be almost immune to disease and insect attack, there being a little rust found in one field, although not enough to do any damage. In summing up, the greatest damage, at least in so far as Los Angeles county is concerned, has been done by the bean rust on the Lady Washington. Following this, the heat damage to limas is the next worst. It is at the present time difficult to give any accurate information as to the prices that will be received for beans, as at the present writing the market is somewhat unsettled. It will probably settle down to a steady tone when the needs of the army and navy are known and also the prices that the government will be willing to pay. There has been a slow movement of most varieties at prices a little below that received last year. Black Eyes have been bringing around 6 cents, while some limas have sold as high as 11 cents. The hold-over crop of Black Eyes is considerable, more than that of any other variety. There are several important problems confronting bean growers in some localities. Perhaps the most important of these is to find the beans best suited to particular localities. In many of the large bean growing sections, as the coast regions of Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange counties, the lima is grown exclusively and is giving satisfaction. In many of the smaller valleys, however, where local conditions enter strongly, the problem is a very live one, and one in which growers are manifesting a great deal of interest. The most practical way to come to any conclusion on this subject is to try small plantings of varieties presumably adapted to the locality, and watch the growth during the season, and especially the yield at the time of harvest. Dr. Ross says the fruit is bright, clean and of good size for this time of year. The citrus canker has been practically wiped out, only a few trees having been found infested with this pest this season. The state and government officials, however, are not relaxing in their vigilance and are watching carefully for any recurrence of the trouble. The citrus crop will probably be a trifle earlier than usual owing to the extremely favorable growing conditions. There may be a few Parson Browns shipped out of the state the middle of October, but the heavy movement will not commence until some time later. There will also be some early grape fruit from the Miami district. Dr. Ross and Mr. Skelly say the exchange had an exceedingly successful season last year, realizing unusually good prices, and they both look for a good season this year. Some oranges have been sold on the trees. Earlier in the season growers were a little weak in their ideas of prices, but the exchange has persistently urged them not to sell for less than $2 a box on the trees, and most of the growers are holding out for this price. Mr. Skelly says that because of the increase in the cost of labor, fertilizer, packages and everything else the grower needs and uses, it will be necessary for him to get at least $2 on the trees to make any money. With the advanced freight rates oranges to net $2 on the trees will have to sell in this market for around $4.25. PEACHES FOR THE ARMY Approximately 13,000 tons of California dried peaches, representing 65 per cent of the peach crop of the state have been secured for government purposes, the federal food administrator for California has announced. California will furnish also approximately 61,000,000 pounds of prunes, or about 45 per cent of the total pack for the army and navy, it was anounced. Oregon and Washington will furnish 18,000,000 pounds, or 40 per cent of their entire crop, for the Allies, it was said. SOLDIER AND SAILOR INSURANCE The business of insuring our soldiers and sailors is scarce a year old, and yet we have written more than $30.-A certain new council has his strictic, and if things as per schedule, year's straw, that it. This particular does not quite use he asks for info meeting, and if so much the best way to promote thing then will it the goose will hiance from terrain. Mr. Welch deals in rubber; the council has view of picking. He says hose double in price; clous, and while upon him, seek anything to bring the gentleman said he really has since he had been respond. Welch deal like Frank time attended ther known character;the story had it had been a gar horn species. The clusion of his one present destiny for the departed listen. Not a Wiggins arose seemed to care for the man we great divide—his address on Californi was alright, but climate he would about his new there was laugh everybody sett wind-up of the's rain drops patte- and Orange counties, the lima is grown exclusively and is giving satisfaction. In many of the smaller valleys; however, where local conditions enter strongly, the problem is a very live one, and one in which growers are manifesting a great deal of interest. The most practical way to come to any conclusion on this subject is to try small plantings of varieties presumably adapted to the locality, and watch the growth during the season, and especially the yield at the time of harvesting. There has been some experimenting of this kind this season, and undoubtedly some valuable results will be obtained. Another problem confronting growers is that of obtaining better seed. What seed selection has done for other crops is too well known to be more than mentioned here, and there is no reason why the same results cannot be obtained with beans. The amount of such work done this year with beans has been disappointingly small, and growers have undoubtedly missed an opportunity for betterting their crop. Some selection work was done near Van Nuys and San Fernando, and the growers can expect better yields next season as the result of these efforts. There can still be some selection practiced this year where the vines are still growing, the vines showing up best as to growth and yield being marked, and later harvested by hand. This can be done without much extra labor, and will certainly be time well spent, if the grower expects to plant beans next season. Merely selecting seed from the sacks by hand picking and keeping only the best is of some value, but does not give the grower any idea as to whether the seed thus selected is from heavy or light yielding plants, and it probably is from both, so that his average will be close to the average of the field SOLDIER AND SAILOR INSURANCE The business of insuring our soldiers and sailors is scarcely a year old, and yet we have written more than $30,000,000,000 of insurance, insuring approximately three and a half million of soldiers and sailors. This gigantic business, employing 10,000 individuals and doing a greater business than the largest insurance company of the world, has all been organized in less than 12 months. Of late the bureau has been doing more than a billion dollar a week business; the total for the month of August will approximate $5,000,000,000 in new insurance. On one day 92,253 pieces of mail came to the bureau. It is a great work, an intricate work, a work that every American approves of. More than 90 per cent of the members of our military and naval forces are insured, and this insurance has strengthened the morale of our fighting men and brought comfort and courage to their dependents at home. In addition to the insurance there are added soldier and sailor family allotments and government allowances to dependents, the disbursement of allotments and allowances already totaling more than $140,000,000. Wm. Berkinstock and family have returned from an enjoyable visit in Pennsylvania and other eastern states. Mrs. Berkinstock says they had a pleasant outing, but that the family is glad to get back to grand old California. They Say Two years or more ago the board of trustees, three members of whom went out of office last April, had plans well laid to extend the sewerage system to the 80-acre tract of land located in a city to the west. Rights of way across intervening streets in that bailwick were to be received by permission being granted by the railroad commission. The members of the council were using a certain degree of finesse in their deliberations along those lines, and under the advice of a well known and eminent Los Angeles attorney, who was called in as associate counsel, the trustees were assured of a successful launching of the venture. Of course, it was expected that opposition would be met but the Los Angeles counsel assured the board that this would be brushed away. This would have been a ten-strike for the city of Anaheim, and the trustees were going along in fine shape, but foresaw a dilemma staring the city in the face unless some further disposition were made possible of the sewerage effluent than that now at present in use. But just about that time opposition sprung up against the board regarding the erection of a new city hall and since that period just one thing after another has been piling up in a heap. A certain member of the city council has his eye on the body politic, and if things do not move along as per schedule, you can bet your last year's straw, that you will hear about it. This particular city dad when he does not quite understand a situation he asks for information right out in meeting, and if the shoe pinches, why, so much the better. This is a good way to promote efficiency, and everything then will move along nicely and will have a reasonable dis- FARMERS KILL HUN STARVATION PLAN WITH BIG CROPS Pinched by Own Hunger, Germans Watch American Wheat Flow in Plenty to the Allies The soil, the two-fisted fighting men that spring from the soil, and the unconquerable determination of the Americans who till it, are beating the Germans. Thrown back from his first rush across the Marne and held at Verdun by the valiant French, the Huns cast all the restraints of humanity and civilization to the winds and ushered in unrestricted submarine warfare with the boast that England would be starved in six months. How nearly they approached success will form one of the most gloomy chapters in the world war history; how and why they failed, one of the most inspiring sections of the epic chronicle. AMERICA SENDS FIGHTERS FOOD True, British and American sea-dogs hunted the submarine; American shipbuilders launched fleets whose sheer numbers made it impossible for the Hun sub-sea terrorors to sink all of them; British land conscription turned hundreds of thousands of acres of parks and hunting-preserves into crop-producing areas; Hoover and American food economy saved millions of bushels of wheat and shiploads of meat for fighting men and civilians in France and England. But in the last analysis it was the farm and the farmer of America that kept allied hosts on every Western front in plenty and added despair of victory to the pinch of hunger behind the Hun lines. WHY WORRY? It is conceded on all sides that worry is the most deadly as well as the most useless ill from which the human race suffers. Eevrybody knows that it does no good to worry; still we do it. It gets hold of us surprisingly easy, and it is a hard thing to shake. Those who are free from it are very generous with advice that they do not act upon when they become victims of the malady themselves. But, really, why should we worry? About everything in life is taken care of and looked out to by some other than ourselves. The money we earn is the cofficern of the man who employs us. He is the one who must worry about that. Our clothes are decided upon in conventions of tailors and mantuamakers. Hoover does the worrying about what we shall eat. Congress does the worrying for the country, apparently insensible of the aid it might receive from those who hold down the cracker barrels in the crossroads grocery stores. It might be well for us all if we were to settle down to the idea that we are as fully cared for now as we were when we were infants in our mothers' arms—when we didn't know enough, happily, to worry. Most of all, let us consider how we are in the care of the good God, Himself. He is the all-kind Father We are in His hands, as the stars and all the worlds that exist are in His hands. No sparrow falls without His knowledge. And He is a loving Father. He folds us within the shadow of His wing. We have but to lean on Him and all shall be well. "COOTIES." Worse than shells and bombs and rats, in the estimation of many men A certain member of the city council has his eye on the body politic, and if things do not move along as per schedule, you can bet your last year's straw, that you will hear about it. This particular city dad when he does not quite understand a situation he asks for information right out in meeting, and if the shoe pinches, why, so much the better. This is a good way to promote efficiency, and everything then will move along nicely and the goose will hang a respectable distance from terra firma. Mr. Welch, of Los Angeles, who deals in rubber hose, paid a visit to the council the other evening, with a view of picking up a sale if possible. He says hose in a year is going to double in price. Mr. Welch is loquacious, and while Mayor Dwyer called upon him, seeking to know if he had anything to bring before the meeting, the gentleman from the Angelic burg said he really had nothing to offer, but since he had been called upon he would respond. Welch said he felt a good deal like Frank Wiggins, who at one time attended the obsequies of a well known character down south—in fact, the story had it that the departed one had been a gambler, one of the tin horn species. The clergyman, at conclusion of his discourse, said if any one present desired to say a good word for the departed, he would pause to listen. Not a person responded, but Wiggins arose and said while no one seemed to care to speak a kind word for the man who had gone over the great divide—he would make a short address on California. Welch said that was alright, but instead of talking climate he would tell the board all about his new brand of hose. Then there was laughter, but no cigars, and everybody settled back to hear the wind-up of the session while the gentle rain drops pattered on the roof. The members of the police force will have to brush up their regalia, keep the brass buttons polished, must not be skimpy with shaves even if they are high, and must look like a fashion plate or the council is going to know the reason why. Attention! The cub reporter rises to remark that short skirts give a fellow a chance to find out who's bowlimbed. PROGRESS OF COTTAGE CHEESE CAMPAIGN British land conscription turned hundreds of thousands of acres of parks and hunting preserves into crop-producing areas; Hoover and American food economy saved millions of bushels of wheat and shiploads of meat for fighting men and civilians in France and England. But in the last analysis it was the farm and the farmer of America that kept allied hosts on every Western front in plenty and added despair of victory to the plight of hunger behind the Hun lines. His bumper crops jolted hopes at Potsdam and Vienna as severely as his fighting sons jolted Teuton generals at Cantigny and along the Marne, since expectations of American crop failure were based with Germanic complacency on carefully plotted campaigns of propaganda and sabotage in the United States. HUN AGENTS BURN CROPS The general public is too little aware of the bitter battles the crop grower has had to fight to bring his wheat to harvest. Burned barns, standing crops, harvesters and threshing machines were only a part of the widespread rule planned by those fellows of Boy-Ed, Von Papen and von Bernstorff, and in too many instances their plots were successful. That more were not due only to untiring vigilance which can never be relaxed while the war lasts. New goals, not easy of attainment, are placed before the farmer through the plan for raising an army of five million Americans to crush Germany next year. He will be further handicapped by the loss of hands to the army, and he must raise greater crops. Plans of the Department of Agriculture call for the increase of wheat acreage in the West by as much as 80 per cent. NEW EFFORTS CALLED FOR No one doubts that he will rise to the opportunity for service placed before him, any more than any one doubts that he will play his other parts in the perfectly co-ordinated fighting machine revealed when America turned as a nation to win the war. Not the least of these parts was his participation in the financing of the battle, though previous history had written down much effort to finance the farmer. Rural districts were uniformly more prompt than metropolitan areas in their response to the Third Liberty Loan. Honor flags first flew from country flagstaffs, and those with the greatest number of honor stripes likewise. The Third Liberty Loan, the greatest financial achievement in the history of the United States, and therefore in the world, is to be perhaps doubly collared by the Fourth Liberty VICTORY TANK COMING The "Million Dollar" Liberty Loan PROGRESS OF COTTAGE CHEESE CAMPAIGN Over 580,000 pounds of cottage cheese has been made and consumed in homes as a result of the campaign to increase the making and consumption of cottage cheese of good quality. Last spring by the dairy division cooperating with the state relations service of the United States department of agriculture. Educational work has been done in 40 states, largely through the instrumentality of the women home demonstration agents. Over 2000 meetings and demonstrations have been held before 100,000 people. As a result 41,499 persons have been encouraged to take up the manufacture of cottage cheese. Not only has the manufacturing end been demonstrated but uses in cookery have also been explained. The campaign, the results of which will continue to spread, has shown the people of the United States a means of utilizing skim milk in the home and creamery in the preparation of a valuable food. Gavvy Cravath, of the Philadelphia Nationals, and dean of home-runners, is home again. For the past several days he has been at Laguna Beach, getting acquainted again with the best fishing spots and thinking over how he can best help to win the war. He is looking for a job, and says he would prefer driving a tractor to anything else. When I spent six months among wood choppers in Santa Cruz county, California, they would lay infested shirts on an ant heap, and in the morning all the lice had disappeared. However, soldiers cannot always find a convenient ant hill, and it would require many ant armies to do the work. VICTORY TANK COMING The "Million Dollar" Liberty Loan Tank Victory will tour Southern California and appear in every city and community during the Liberty Loan campaign. This was the announcement today of Publicity Director Harold Janss of the Southern California Liberty Loan state central committee after meeting with the county chairmen of the various Southern California counties. This monster tank is the same tank that was the central feature of the Liberty Loan campaign in Los Angeles city during the third drive. From its hurricane deck a million dollars worth of bonds were sold by the moving picture stars of the big moving picture studios of Los Angeles. So successful was this feature during the third loan that Director of Publicity Janss was besieged with requests to have the tank appear in Southern California cities. The big tank will be escorted through the entire tour by military motorcycle+onriders and will carry a machine gun and be fully equipped with spot lights, flood lights and every contrivance necessary for the Liberty Loan work. It is stated it will travel between the different communities on its own power. The exact date of its appearance at Anaheim will be announced later and it is stated that prominent moving picture stars will WORRY? On all sides that deadly as well as still from which the Eevrybody knows and to worry; still we of us surprisingly hard thing to shake. See from it are very price that they do not money become victims themselves. Should we worry? On life is taken care to by some one sees. The money we turn of the man who is the one who must Our clothes are deventions of tailors. Hoover does what we shall eat. We worrying for the easy insensible of the drive from those whoacker barrels in the stores. For us all if we were the idea that we are now as we were plants in our mothers' didn't know enough, us consider how we the good God, Him-all-kind Father We was the stars and all list are in His hands without His knowledge a loving Father. He was the shadow of His but to lean on Him well. NOTIES." Bells and bombs and nation of many men appear in this city and speak from the tank. Special plans will be arranged to make the visit of the tank a huge success. BIG SEWER PROJECT FOR NEWPORT BEACH System to Cost $173,000 in Centemplation at Harbor City The most extensive municipal improvement to be attempted in Southern California during the year will be undertaken by Newport Beach at once, provided the war issues committee indorses the project as being essential and gives its approval. The city trustees recently awarded to the James D. Kneen Contracting Company of Santa Monica the contract for the construction of a complete sewer system embracing approximately eleven miles of mains and involving the expenditure of $173,000. The formal award of the contract has been made and all proceedings in connection with the proposed enterprise are now in the hands of the war issues committee at San Francisco for approval. The installation of the sewer system is deemed a paramount essential, especially in view of the fact that the early future is to see at least one pretentious shipbuilding project launched here. The sewer is to be constructed under the Vrooman act and for this purpose, two-thirds of the entire city has been included within the assessment district. In all, about 4,500 separate pieces of property are involved. The assessment district embraces about $1,750,000 of assessable property. The improvement would serve a winter population of about 1500. This increases to 10,000 during the summer months. The sewer, with 56,000 feet of mains and 9,000 feet of house connections, is to cover the entire peninsula and will cross under the Santa Ana river to dermment itself is not buying the walnut, but sends out the information to manufacturers working on government contracts. LA HABRA WALNUTS The La Habra Walnut Association is to make some changes, it is reported, in the handling of the crop this year, and to this end a new culling system has been installed. This will cull the nuts by machinery in the same manner that oranges are handled on moving belts, and the only sorting which the growers will do will be in taking out very rough culls. The house will also handle the sale of the culls to local markets. It is thought the walnuts will be ready about October 20. The crop is estimated to run about 75 per cent of an average crop. The fruit is of good size and variety and while the price has not been set, it will run more than last year, 25 cents being talked of. Notice to Taxpayers Notice is hereby given that the city taxes on all personal property secured by real property, and on all real property in the City of Anaheim, will be due and payable on the first Monday in October, 1918, and will be delinquent on the last Monday in November, next thereafter, at 6 o'clock P.M. Unless said taxes are paid prior to the last Monday in November, 1918, at 6 o'clock P.M., 10 per cent will be added to the amount thereof. Said taxes are payable to the undersigned at his office in the City Hall, in said City of Anaheim, between the hours of 8 A.M. and 12 M., and between the hours of 1 P.M. and 5 P.M. Marshal and ex-officio Tax Collector of the City of Anaheim. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT DON'T FORGET Saturday and Sunday SEPT.21 and 22 at SEAL BEACH MONSTER SEPT.21 and 22 at SEAL BEACH MONSTER Two-Day Athletic CARNIVAL Benefit Athletic Fund, Submarine Base and Seal Beach Athletic Association. Twenty-five Cts Pays All Soldiers and Sailors Free. Boxing, Diving, Swimming Races, Tug-of-War, Etc. Swimming and Diving Contests by L.A.A.C. Stars. BoxinL Matches, Two-of-War, Etc. One Big Thrill After Another EVENTS (EXCEPT THE EVENING BOXING MATCHES) WILL BE STAGED ON THE OCEAN FRONT WHERE EVERYBODY CAN SEE AND HEAR. The Famous U. S. Submarine Base Band will Furnish Music. Bring the Whole Family