anaheim-gazette 1918-11-07

WHEAT REVIVAL PROBABLE IN THE STATE KING OF CEREALS MAY TAKE PROMINENT PLACE IN THE STATE'S PRODUCTS EXPERIMENTS SHOW VERY LARGE CROPS OF WHEAT CAN BE PRODUCED BY CHEAP LANDS Is His Majesty, Wheat, King of all the cereals, again to reign in California? Conditions are changing and those who have made a study of the subject agree that now and after the war, wheat holds better prospects from the standpoint of monetary return for California farmers, than barley. An extensive campaign for more wheat is now under way in this state, partly in view of the world need so strongly emphasized by the Food Administration and partly as a refutation of the popular fallacy that California grain lands are "worn out." Wheat is the crop that first put California on the agricultural map, and wheat is surely again coming into its own. It is "coming back" in a new form, however. For experiments extending over a period of years, together with results obtained in the neighboring states of Oregon and Arizona, have demonstrated conclusively the superiority over the standard California varieties, of the wonderful Early state that they entertain no fears in this direction. An interesting experiment was recently conducted on a quarter section of my company's own land, near Chico. This land had been rented for eight or ten years at a nominal figure, being regarded as fit for nothing but pasturage and similar to thousands of acres used for that purpose throughout the state. The land had been appraised at $6 an acre, or $960 for the entire tract, by a man thoroughly posted on values in the vicinity. Eighty-eight acres of this tract produced 512 sacks of Baart wheat. At $3.75 a hundred, the crop brought $2,636, or almost three times the appraised value of the entire quarter section. The wheat weighed 63 pounds to the bushel. Especially since it was accomplished in a season of adverse conditions, this showing should furnish food for thought to owners of similar lands who have done nothing more than pasture them. Early Baart wheat grown in Colusa county produced yields much above the average and of a quality so superior to local wheats that after inspecting it Professor B. A. Madson of the University Farm at Davis, the Colusa County Farm Advisor and one of the Government wheat inspectors then on a visit to California have since been recommending this variety to the farmers of Yolo, Colusa and Glenn counties. H. W. Keller, of Los Angeles, harvested some 2,400 sacks of this wheat from 249 acres. As the wheat weighed well over 63 pounds to the bushel, Keller held it for seed at a fancy price. No attempt is being made to revolutionize the whole program of wheat growing, but rather it is hoped to stress a few of the factors of first importance. First and foremost is the question of good seed, true to type. The farmers are being impressed with BIG SEED QUALITY OF AND PRICES IN INDUSTRY Sixty-five will return nine and California's walnuts is most It is now applied season will be any in his state. And the quality ever known. The campaign conjoined boost for co-op From 65,000 acres will sell nine a lars worth of nu The light rain caused no apparent crop states. Thorpe of the Growers' Association was noticed in rains hastened ed in the harvest was satisfactory and children were able and pleasant walnuts. Almost all the walnuts, which of the popular fallacy that California grain lands are "worn out." Wheat is the crop that first put California on the agricultural map, and wheat is surely again coming into its own. It is "coming back" in a new form, however. For experiments extending over a period of years, together with results obtained in the neighboring states of Oregon and Arizona, have demonstrated conclusively the superiority over the standard California varieties, of the wonderful Early Baart. This variety is being extensively planted this year, and, in fact, is being made the basis of our "more wheat campaign." It is superior to the "standard" wheats of the state not only from the millers' standpoint (being equal in milling qualities to the hard winter wheats of Kansas), but in returns to the farmer. From Chico, Butte county, on the north to Imperial Valley on the south, satisfactory reports of the yield of Early Baart wheat this season have been received. Baart is a bearded wheat with a light but elastic straw. The grain does not break off nor shell out any more than that of the so-called "standard" milling varieties. It is a hardy wheat, withstanding extremely wet as well as unusually dry weather. The Baart makes a rather rank growth, has a very heavy leaf, and most important of all, ripens from ten to fifteen days earlier than the local wheats. This advantage is important for rthe reason that California often has short springs with early hot summers and occasional north winds which have a tendency to shrink wheat that is not well matured. In the Sacramento Valley a 50-acre tract of Early Baart wheat was planted along side of 800 acres of Bluestem at Riego on the Natomas tract, just above Sacramento, by Messrs. Warren and Sebbelow. From their report of their experiences during the season just passed the following summary has been made: Both varieties were seeded between November tenth and twentieth; about 80 pounds of seed per acre was used. The Bluestem came up about two weeks before the Early Baart and the latter made but half a stand because, it is believed, of insufficient rainfall. (Subsequent tests, however, have not shown any difference in time of germination between Bluestem, California Australian and Early Baart.) In spite of this set-back the Baart soon outgrew the Bluestem and showed a tendency to stool never equalled by any other wheat on that character of soil (heavy adobe with counties. H. W. Keller, of Los Angeles, harvested some 2,400 sacks of this wheat from 249 acres. As the wheat weighed well over 63 pounds to the bushel, Keller held it for seed at a fancy price. No attempt is being made to revolutionize the whole program of wheat growing, but rather it is hoped to stress a few of the factors of first importance. First and foremost is the question of good seed, true to type. The farmers are being impressed with the folly of sowing seed that is not true to type because of its inevitable deterioration and decrease in yield year by year. The mills of California find that today only 15 per cent of the wheat that reaches them is true to type, while fully 40 per cent of it is normally fit for nothing but chicken feed. The part played by drainage is being especially explained. After the dry springs of recent years, the grain farmers of California are apt to forget that in a year of heavy rainfall thousands of acres of wheat may be actually drowned out, or that the land may become so badly baked that anything like a normal production becomes impossible. The expenditure of a few dollars an acre for drainage, they are being advised, will frequently be more than offset by the increased yields from one season's crops. Those who are conducting the present campaign believe there are thousands of acres in barley that should be in wheat. The grain farmers have become alive to the fact that today a sack of wheat is worth two sacks of barley and accordingly the present has proved to be the psychological time to suggest a change from barley to wheat. Conditions clearly warrant it. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AUTOS Figures made public by the Automobile Club of California and compiled for that organization by the Automobile Publishing Company reveal that Southern California is indeed the land of motors. The ten southern counties combined boast a total of 164,042 cars, Los Angeles leading with the largest total. Here are the figures: Counties Los Angeles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103,517 San Diego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,713 Orange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,014 Kern ..... 8,481 San Bernardino ..... 8,099 Santa Barbara ..... 5,576 Riverside ..... 5,373 A good average is seventy-five pounds to the groves run over income from some equalled the price were offered for. The method pthe walnuts follow. After the first gathering up of fallen from the sorted to. Many acre was used. The Bluestem came up about two weeks before the Early Baart and the latter made but half a stand because, it is believed, of insufficient rainfall. (Subsequent tests, however, have not shown any difference in time of germination between Bluestem, California Australian and Early Baart.) In spite of this set-back the Baart soon outgrew the Bluestem and showed a tendency to stool never equalled by any other wheat on that character of soil (heavy adobe with a few inches of sediment on top). More than 40 heads were noted on one stalk and the average was fifteen to twenty, while the Bluestem averaged from four to six. All heads were large and well filled. The Baart matured two or three weeks earlier, and 51 acres yielded 974 sacks, or 19 sacks per acre. A perfect stand of Bluestem in the two adjoining fields averaged 14½ sacks per acre. These growers are to plant half their acreage to Baart next year. They were particularly impressed with the advantage of being able to cut the Baart before the Bluestem had matured. In the same neighborhood Moreing Brothers, who had practically 20,000 acres in wheat, have become so thoroughly impressed with the advantages of the Early Baart that they will plant eight or nine thousand acres of it next year. They had about 2,500 acres of Baart this year, and obtained as much as 2,600 to 3,000 pounds to the acre. This wheat was planted on reclaimed land in spite of the warning of the experts who had conducted experiments with the wheat that this and river bottom land were—the only types of soil on which there might be some doubt of the wisdom of planting Early Baart wheat on account of its rank growth and consequent liability to lodge. Moreing Brothers, however, Counties Los Angeles 103,517 San Diego 11,713 Orange 9,014 Kern 8,481 San Bernardino 8,099 Santa Barbara 5,576 Riverside 5,373 Imperial 5,330 Ventura 3,578 San Luis Obispo 2,552 Inyo 809 Total 184,042 Cities and Towns Los Angeles 63,329 San Diego 7,828 Pasadena 7,535 Long Beach 5,883 Bakersfield 3,442 Santa Ana 2,884 Santa Barbara 2,841 Riverside 2,430 San Bernardino 2,012 Pomona 1,840 Hollywood 1,724 Whittler 1,544 Redlands 1,532 Taft 1,501 El Centro 1,415 Fullerton 1,419 Glendale 1,370 Anaheim 1,341 Alhambra 1,117 Santa Monica 1,102 JEST SETS Representative Harvey Helm of Kentucky told in a war tax argument a story about a lazy man. "I once asked this man," said Mr. Helm, "how, since he couldn't read, A good average is seventy-five pounds to the groves run over income from some equalled the price were offered for. The method pits the walnuts follow after the first gathering up of fallen from the sort to sorting to. Many this work this year men and children shucked and sack is the taken to where the nuts through a solution trically treated gas, and graded then assorted by ing belts by women through a suction moves all the lights are then dried a ment. At the headquarter Growers' Association Seventh street, L products department are handled, the first-class nuts cracked for the carefully saved to ing of gas masks are also ground filing explosives." BIG SEASON FOR THE WALNUT GROWER QUALITY OF CROP IS EXCELLENT AND PRICES RECEIVED HIGHEST IN INDUSTRY'S HISTORY Sixty-five thousand acres will return the growers nine and a half million dollars worth of nuts. California's immense 1918 crop of walnuts is more than half harvested. It is now apparent that the present season will be the most satisfactory of any in the history of walnut growing in this state. The crop is the largest, and the quality and price the best ever known. The results of this year's campaign constitute a tremendous boost for co-operative walnut growing. From 65,000 acres the walnut growers will sell nine and one-half million dollars worth of nuts. The light rains of late summer caused no appreciable damage to the crop, states General Manager C. Thorpe of the California Walnut Growers' Association. Discoloration was noticed in isolated cases, but the rains hastened dropping and thus helped in the harvest. The labor situation was satisfactory. Hundreds of women and children were able to find profitable and pleasant employment gathering walnuts. Almost all the California crop of walnuts, which, incidentally, is profect which nobody denies, fact which it would be as foolish as it would be infamous for anybody to attempt to deny. With Republican officials bending every effort to win the war with Beveridge, said: In a recent speech at South Bend, Indiana, former senator, Albert J. Beveridge, said: As to carrying on the war to victory, there is no issue, although in the manner of our entering it there is a price-less lesson. All Americans regardless of creed, section, race or politics are for the war until the American Nation is triumphant and the enemy lays down his arms. From the moment Congress declared hostilities, the Republican slogan has been and is "unconditional surrender." The facts of record place on the brow of the Republican party a new and a peculiar glory. In all the wars we ever waged, of which this is the seventh, this is the first armed struggle during which the party out of power did not oppose the war and obstruct the Government's efforts to win it. But in this conflict the Republican party, out of power, has rallied to the colors with a mighty enthusiasm and more than aggressively supported every measure that made for victory on the battlefield. Even during our eight years' struggle for Independence the people were divided and only a part of them stood by Washington and his ragged, starving but unconquerable little army. In our naval war with France the political party then out of power denounced that conflict and furiously assailed every step our Government took to vindicate American interests, rights and honor. In our second armed collision with Great Britain the party then out of power bitterly denounced it. Governors of some states refused military assistance, influential and wealthy men declined to buy Liberty Bonds of that time, and openly discouraged others from doing so. Even secession from caused no appreciable damage to the crop, states General Manager C. Thorpe of the California Walnut Growers' Association. Discoloration was noticed in isolated cases, but the rains hastened dropping and thus helped in the harvest. The labor situation was satisfactory. Hundreds of women and children were able to find profitable and pleasant employment gathering walnuts. Almost all the California crop of walnuts, which, incidentally, is produced in the district south of the Tehachepi range, is being marketed through the California Walnut Growers' Association, a non-profit organization of growers marketing the product. The cream of the crop is marketed in one-pound cartons and sacks under the "Diamond Brand." The association has twenty-five packing-houses, including three modern plants just being erected at Santa Barbara, Santa Ana and at Irvine, the three costing $110,000. These plants extend from San Juan Capistrano to Santa Barbara and from Sespe to Hemet. One packing-house has been erected solely to take care of the output of the largest walnut grove in the world, one of 2,000 acres on the Irvine ranch, Orange county. The association distributes nuts in carload lots in every state in the Union. Last year the price received for No. 2 nuts was 16½ cents, for No. 1, 20 cents, and for budded stock, 24 cents. This year the growers are receiving 25 cents for No. 2, 28 cents for No. 1, and 31½ cents for budded walnuts. It is estimated that the total crop will amount to over 33,000,000 pounds. Los Angeles county has the largest acreage of walnuts of any county, but many of the groves are as yet non-bearing. Orange county leads in the total actual production of nuts. Last Spring many new groves were set out. The increase in acreage amounted to 15 per cent. More than half the new groves are of budded stock, set out to trees consisting of black walnut root and selected English walnut buds. A good average production per tree is seventy-five pounds; and 2,000 pounds to the acre, although many groves run over this figure. The gross income from some of the groves has equalled the price at which the groves were offered for sale a few years ago. The method pursued in harvesting the walnuts follows: After the first picking, that is, the gathering up of the nuts which have fallen from the trees, "poling" is resorted to. Many farmerettes added in our naval war with France the political party then out of power bitterly denounced it. Governors of some states refused military assistance, influential and wealthy men declined to buy Liberty Bonds of that time, and openly discouraged others from doing so. Even secession from the Union was advocated and planned for because of the war. In our war with Mexico the party then out of power not only was against the American cause but was abusive of the National authorities in their successful efforts to advance the interests of the Republic by which was won for liberty and civilization that vast empire now peopleled by millions of the freest, happiest and most prosperous men and women on earth. The record made by the party then out of power during the Civil War and throughout and after the Spanish War is still fresh in the minds of living men. Thus it comes about that, in all our history, the Republican party, is the only party out of power that did not oppose, resist and obstruct the American Nation when at war—the only party out of power that ever approved any armed conflict we ever had; the only party out of power when the battle flag was unfurled, that ever strengthened the arm of the Government. Not only this, but it is a fact known to all men that, ever since we entered the war, vital war measures could not have been put through Congress by the party in power, and were passed only by the aggressive action of the Republican Senators and Representatives. Moreover, the states and sections of our common land which have paid, are paying and will pay by far the greater part of the terrific expenses of the war—pay them without complaint and with wholehearted devotion to the Nation—are Republican states and Republican sections. It is a fact that the parts of our united country that have furnished the largest number of soldiers who are fighting the Nation's battles are these same republican states, these same Republican sections. If the proportions of the number of Americans under arms represent the political geography of America, it is not impossible that more Republicans are serving with the colors than memorials. fact which nobody denies, fact which it would be as foolish as it would be infamous for anybody to attempt to deny. With Republican officials bending every effort to win war; with Republican fathers and mothers giving their sons and their substance for the Nation's cause; with Republican soldiers fighting and falling on the field of battle; with Republican leaders the first to demand peace only with victory, it would be politically fatal and morally criminal for the Democratic party to challenge Republican fidelity to the flag. Thus we see that in the support of the Government while waging war there is no issue between the parties. Everybody knows that the election of Republican Congressmen and Republican Senators means, at the very least, as stanch and as aggressive support of the Government in conducting hostilities as the election of Democratic Representatives and Senators possibly could mean. Is it said that Republican victory will hearten Germany and dishearten our associates on the battle field? The answer it, Maine! Did Republican success in Maine encourage the Kaiser? Did Republican triumph in the Pine Tree State paralyze the will and brain of Foch or bring despair to Italy, Great Britain and France? Would the Central Powers be strengthened by tirings that American elections have been carried by the political party led by Theodore Roosevelt? We are asked to vote for Democratic candidates for the House and Senate because they will do whatever the Administration wants them to do, not only until peace is declared, but also in that dark and heavy period that will come upon us when the war is won. That time cannot be far distant. It may come as suddenly as the breaking of that monstrous storm that for four years has deluged the world in blood. Why should voters sign blank checks for Mr. Wilson to fill in as he likes hereafter? Yet that is what you are directed to do. You are commanded to vote for Democratic candidates in order that they may ratify any decree no matter what, that hereafter may be issued from the White House. Yet if peace arrives within the next few months... A good average production per tree is seventy-five pounds; and 2,000 pounds to the acre, although many groves run over this figure. The gross income from some of the groves has equalled the price at which the groves were offered for sale a few years ago. The method pursued in harvesting the walnuts follows: After the first picking, that is, the gathering up of the nuts which have fallen from the trees, "poling" is resorted to. Many farmerettes aided in this work this year, and scores of women and children gathered up, hand-shucked and sacked the nuts. The crop is taken to the packing-house, where the nuts are cleaned and put through a solution of salt water, electrically treated to produce chlorine gas, and graded for size. They are then assorted by hand over slow-moving belts by women and girls, and go through a suction machine which removes all the lightweight nuts. They are then dried and sacked for shipment. At the headquarts of the Walnut Growers' Association at No. 1326 East Seventh street, Los Angeles, is the by-products department. Here the culls are handled, the one-pound package of first-class nuts packed and the nuts cracked for the meats. The shells are carefully saved to be used in the making of gas masks for Uncle Sam. They are also ground fine and used for packing explosives. he managed to put in the time day after day without doing a stroke of work? "The lazy man yawned, took a chew of tobacco and answered: "'Waal, Congressman Helm, sometimes I sets an' thinks, an' then ag'in I jest sets.'" It is a fact that the parts of our united country that have furnished the largest number of soldiers who are fighting the Nation's battles are these same republican states, these same Republican sections. If the proportions of the number of Americans under arms represent the political geography of America, it is not impossible that more Republicans are serving with the colors than members of any other political party. This is a record without precedent or parallel. Yet we Republicans claim no credit for it. We have only done our duty. But we are proud that in the doing of that duty we have raised a new standard of loyalty. Would the same have happened if we were in power and the Democratic praty out of power? The chief argument and greatest influence in the re-election of the present administration was that it had kept us out of war and that the Republican party if successful would get us into war. Had Mr. Hughes been elected and Mr. Wilson been defeated on that issue, would the Democratic party have stood by President Hughes in the conduct of the war, as stanchly as the Republican party has stood by President Wilson? The Republican party though out of power, is not a peace party obstructing the Government, but instead a war party upholding the Government. If the Democratic party had been defeated and were now out of power, would it, like us, have become a war party upholding the Government? Doubtless events would have answered these questions in the affirmative; but as to the Republican attitude there can be no speculation, for the Republican stand is a matter of recorded fact— That time cannot be far distant. It may come as suddenly as the breaking of that monstrous storm that for four years has deluged the world in blood. Why should voters sign blank checks for Mr. Wilson to fill in as he likes hereafter? Yet that is what you are directed to do. You are commanded to vote for Democratic candidates in order that they may ratify any decree no matter what, that hereafter may be issued from the White House. Yet if peace arrives within the next few months, it will find America as unready to solve the problems and perform the tasks that will then suddenly confront us, as America was unprepared to fight when the insane and wicked German government forced us into the conflict. Whose fault is that? DON'T GET PANICKY BECAUSE OF INFLUENZA Fullerton Doctor Advises People to Use Common Sense Dr. D.C. Cowles, of Fullerton, writes as follows to a local paper regarding the flu: Anent the "flu" spread and scare, this is the time, condition and place, Southern California, the home of all schools, cults and, must we say, fakers and experimentors. There is no doubt a serious condition confronts the United States as a whole on account of the general spread of the influenza, but there is no need of scaring the public to death or of dosing them to death either with useless remedies or experimental serums. When you stop to think that the United States army authorities in one of our camps here had to call for 100 volunteers to try the serum treatment on, one can see that it hasn't proven itself efficacious enough yet to be HERE'S A BARGAIN! Having received from a bankrupt k 36 Fumed Oak Round Tables, we offering them to our customers at a ain. These tables sell at $17.50 to $50, but in order to make room for Christmas stock we are offering at $15. Here's your chance. Come get one before they are all gone. Exchange Furniture Co. change Furniture Co. y denies, fact which polish as it would be nobody to attempt to an officials bending on the war; with Reand mothers giving their substance for the with Republican solfalling on the field of public leaders the peace only with vicpolitically fatal and for the Democratic Republican fidelity that in the support of while waging war between the parties, that the election of pressmen and Republins, at the very least, aggressive support of a conducting hostilion of Democratic RepSenators possibly Republican victory many and dishearten the battle field? The Did Republican succourage the Kaiser? Riumph in the Pine tree the will and brain despair to Italy, France? Would the vote strengthened by American elections have the political party led sevelt? vote for Democratic House and Senate do whatever the Addicts them to do, not declared, but also heavy period that will enen the war is won. Be far distant. It only as the breaking storm that for four the world in blood. Sign blank checks fill in as he likes what you are commanded strategic candidates in may ratify any decree that hereafter may be White House. Yet if within the next few placed on the open market, and why the general public should have to pay for its use at this time looks queer. We all know the strict care, skill and control the able doctors of the army have at their command, surely they must regard it in more or less of an experimental nature if they ask for volunteers when they could order the submission to it if they were sure. The public will remember back to the infantile paralysis and meningitis scare the numbers of cures and serums that sprung out of fertile minds at that time, and in due time were forgotten. The disease subsided also in due time, neither hurried nor retarded by the various cures of serums with which different doctors and institutions tried to make themselves famous. When the general public stops being panicky and goes about its duties in the calm, restricted way that the various health boards order, and not try to make said health boards take measures that are not necessary, the influenza will subside both here and abroad. Now, with just a few don’ts we will end these remarks. 1. Don’t be frightened. 2. Don’t exhaust yourself either mentally or physically. 3. Don’t go out at evenings unless properly clad for our cool and damp nights. 4. Trust your doctor and don’t listen to every wild and fanciful tale you hear about wonder workers. 5. When feeling bad go to bed and call for your adviser and obey him. 6. Then forget the flu and it will forget you. WHY COFFEE IS CHEAP The United States is a great coffee drinking nation and it has been a matter of interest to many why, with prices of every other commodity soaring out of sight on account of the war that coffee prices should remain practically the same. The following figures on the world production of this staple will explain, in a large measure, why we have been getting our coffee at about the same price that was current before the war: Governmental control of coffee imports into the United States recently per capita, and in 1917 a little more than twelve pounds per capita. There has been a steady increase, however, in the average coffee consumption, the consumption of 1870 being stated officially at six pounds per capita; 1880, 8.8 pounds; 1900, 9.8 pounds; 1915, 10.5 pounds, while 1917 made the highest record 12.2 pounds per capita, the 1918 figures showing an average of about 11 pounds per capita. Brazil is, of course, the world's chief coffee producer, supplying in fact nearly three-fourths of the coffee of the world. In the coffee year 1900-01 Brazil produced 11,285,000 bags (of 132 pounds each) of the world production of 15,070,000; in 1911 10,548,000 out of the world production of 14,524,000, and in the coffee year 1917-18, according to the best estimates now available, Brazil's product was 17,000,000 bags out of a world total of 22,000,000, the 1917-18 crop in Brazil and in the world at large having been larger than in any preceding year except in 1906-7 when the world's total was 23,786,000 bags and that of Brazil 20,190,000 bags. TAKE EXAMINATION The following registrants were called for examination by the exemption board Wednesday: Clifford S. Dolbee, Orange. William Sparks, Huntington Beach. Michael G. Wotell, La Habra. Glen E. Rouse, Placentia. Earl F. Requarth, Anaheim. Charence H. Roberts, La Habra. Charles E. Stodart, Anaheim. Garel I. Shunk, Huntington Beach. William A. Snyder, Fullerton. Jacob E. Yaeger, Fullerton. Arthur B. Wirth, Fullerton. William A. Cordes, Anaheim. William J. Ranker, Anaheim. Roy Wise, Fullerton. Linnacus D. Witherill, Anaheim. Scott E. Traemaine, Brea. William E. Vennink, Santa Ana. George D. Weller, Los Alamitos. Dolph C. Trujillo, Anaheim. Albert R. Collins, Brea. Default judgment has been entered in the superior court in favor of C. H. Pearson against Charles H. Rockwell. Judgment is for $1722. Action was on notes given at Anaheim. Property was attached. be far distant. It only as the breaking storm that for four the world in blood. sign blank checks fill in as he likes that is what you are you are commanded ratic candidates in may ratify any decree hereafter may be White House. Yet if within the next few America as unready ams and perform the suddenly confront unprepared to fight and wicked German us into the conflict. GOCKY E OF INFLUENZA vises People to Use in Sense of Fullerton, Writes normal paper regarding spread and scare, condition and place, the home of all must we say, fakers not a serious condiUnited States as a the general spread there is no need lic to death or of with either with useexperimental serums, think that the Unauthorities in one of had to call for 100 serum treatment it hasn't proven enough yet to be The United States is a great coffee drinking nation and it has been a matter of interest to many why, with prices of every other commodity soaring out of sight on account of the war that coffee prices should remain practically the same. The following figures on the world production of this staple will explain, in a large measure, why we have been getting our coffee at about the same price that was current before the war: Governmental control of coffee imports into the United States recently announced from Washington lends interest to some figures of the world's coffee production and the share consumed in the United States, recently presented in a lecture before the class in International Trade and Commercial Geography in the Educational Department of the National City Bank of New York. The world's coffee crop, according to the lecturer, averages about 2,500,000,000 pounds a year, of which the United States consumes more than one-third—in fact about 40 per cent. The value of the world's crop at the place of growth is about $300,000,000 per annum and the value of the coffee imported into the United States averages a little more than $100,000,000 per annum—has averaged in the last five years about $113,000,000 per annum, the fiscal year 1918 having been $103,000,000, or slightly below the normal. The quantity imported into the United States is a little over one billion pounds, having averaged for the past five years 1,175,000,000 pounds per annum, though the 1918 figures fell slightly below this normal, having been 1,144,000,000 pounds. The average annual consumption of coffee in the United States is about ten pounds for each person, though this fluctuates somewhat, having been in 1913 a little less than nine pounds When in Need of Job Printing call at the Gazette Office