anaheim-gazette 1919-05-01

CROP OUTLOOK FOR COUNTY IS GOOD PRICES EXPECTED TO BE HIGH ON NEARLY ALL PRODUCTS OF THE SOIL Sugar Beet and Lima Bean Yield Reduced by Unfavorable Weather. May Make Citrus Record. With the exception of the lima bean and sugar crops, there is an exceptionally good outlook for the main crops grown in Orange county. The Valencia orange and lemon crops are in good shape. Orange county fruit is going to market free from frost damage and there is every reason to believe that that factor alone is going to tend to give Orange county fruit favorable reception everywhere it goes. The present outlook for prices is pleasing to citrus men. With the fruit in good shape and price prospect good, new orchards coming into bearing. Orange county may again make an exceptional citrus record. Valencia shipments have really just begun, and it is still too early to make a safe prediction as to what the prices will be. Navels are still in the market, and until they are cleaned out and the market clear for Valencias, it is hard to say just how the Valencias will step out. neer and Assistant Attorney General McKissick. The bill has passed the Senate and is now on the second reading file of the Assembly in charge of Assemblyman Kline. Now that there is no objection from the Engineer's office or the Attorney General's office it seems quite likely that the bill may go through. When the bill becomes a law it will be possible to form conservancy districts for flood control and conservation of water in one or more counties so that a whole watershed, such as the Santa Ana River, which extends through three counties, may be organized into one great district. This will undoubtedly be a much better plan than that formerly in vogue, of each locality trying to solve its flood water problems without reference to the effect such work will have on others up or down the stream. LIMA BEAN GROWERS WATCHING PROGRESS Difference of Opinion as to Whether Early or Late Planting is Best. Lima bean growers are going to watch the progress of each other's bean fields this year closer than ever before that they may settle a debate that has been waged for some time among lima growers. The debate centers around the question of early planting. There is a wide dirrefence in the opinions of the farmers as to whether or not early planting of limas is advisable. Some of them are of the opinion that it is a mistake to plant earlier than in normal years. Most of them are decidedly of the opinion that early planting this year is the thing to do. A good many hundreds of acres have been planted in the last ten days of derricks, with most of them the Courler. The Midway Petrolium in Monday for Yarn east of Bradford 1, hauled in the boilers 2, east of Bradford 2. The Union has made ground for Newell 1, mated is rigging up of Newell. Thompson-Goodman 1 and 2 are rigged up is up for Bradford 3. Loftus & O'Brien this week to the Stannings comprise 90 acres north and west of the er. The amount of but probably ruined and $1000 an acre. HOME MIXED FERTILIZER CHEAPER Department of Agriculture and Cost of Home mixing of foe is cheaper than buy fertilizers. The save time to time, accord experts of the Unitedment of Agriculture, is always on the side and is always subste home mixed fertilizer better than the read. A retail price, for 2-8-2 mixture quoted atary, 1919, at Washington $52 a ton. Acid phosphate chased in the same ton, government nitrate $81 a ton, plus freight for $4.25 a unit in la figures the phosphorus of home-mixed fertile less than $16. fruit in good shape and price prospect good, new orchards coming into bearing. Orange county may again make an exceptional citrus record. Valencia shipments have really just begun, and it is still too early to make a safe prediction as to what the prices will be. Navels are still in the market, and until they are cleaned out and the market clear for Valencias, it is hard to say just how the Valencias will step out. The lemon market is holding up satisfactorily. Walnuts are leafing out and blossoming in good shape, so that so far as it is possible to judge at this time the walnut crop, which brings in a big sum of money to growers of this section, is going to be good. There is every reason to believe that the prices will be good. Prices will not be fixed until the harvest of walnuts begins in October. While apricots are not as big a crop in this county as they used to be, since a good many trees have been taken out and replaced with Valencia groves, they are still a substantial crop and the income from them in the aggregate is no small sum of money. While some of the trees are still in bloom, most of the crop, has set and there is indication of a good yield. Several minor fruits, such as Satsuma and other plums, are in full bloom just now, and the tiny fruit is beginning to set. Last year the Satsuma crop was almost a failure here. A large proportion of the trees bore no fruit at all. That fact alone may be taken as a probability of a heavy production this year. Hereabouts there are very few orchards set to Satsuma or other plums, but they are a favorite family fruit tree. This is an off year for the sugar beet and lima bean men, and no doubt about it. Only about half a stand was secured in the sugar beet fields. Cold weather in January and February and a hot spell between rains knocked out a goodly proportion of the first planting of sugar beets. The second planting was none too successful, owing largely to the lack of timely rains. In the Los Alamitos and lowlands sections farmers are already irrigating their sugar beets. The lima bean crop is problematical. Much depends upon weather conditions. Many things might happen. There might be a lot of rain in May, A hot spell might come in June or among lima growers. The debate centers around the question of early planting. There is a wide dirrefence in the opinions of the farmers as to whether or not early planting of limas is advisable. Some of them are of the opinion that it is a mistake to plant earlier than in normal years. Most of them are decidedly of the opinion that early planting this year is the thing to do. A good many hundreds of acres have been planted in the last ten days, and all over the Irvine ranch the planters are busy. Ordinarily most of the planting is done after May 1. Careful record are to be kept this year so that when another succ dry year comes along the question as to whether or not it is advisable to plant early in dry years shall not be a matter for debate. Some of those who are holding back their planting until the usual time say that experience over a long period of years shows that early planting is not successful. They say that it is probably that a period of rather cold weather, not growing weather, is likely to come about the first of May, and if the beans are up they will have their development checked. "They will just stand still and look sick," said an advocate of late planting," and all of the advantages that may be gained by getting a whack at early moisture will be lost. The lima bean is a peculiar animal. Once he starts he must be kept growing in order to get the best results." Those who favor early planting are not looking for any period of check this spring. They say it is an early spring, and the fifteen days gained is to prove a big thing in the development of the crop. This spring weather for the last ten days has been excellent for growing. This is shown in the rapidity with which lima beans have come up. A week from the time the beans were planted, they have popped up in fine shape. The best thing about the way the beans have been coming on is that nearly all of the seed have sprouted in some of the fields there is such an even stand that it looks as though none of the seed had rotted. One of the first fields planted on the Irvine ranch was that by Brad Hellis. He planted a week ago Sunday, and on last Sunday the beans were up in fine shape. Roy Browning began planting a week home mixed fertilizer better than the read A retail price, for 2-8-2 mixture quoted by ary, at Washin $52 a ton. Acid phosphate chased in the same ton, government nit $81 a ton, plus freight for $4.25 a unit in la figures the phosphorus of home-mixed fertility less than $15, then and the potash $8.50.a difference in favor If $3.25 a ton is all and other charges, to a ton. Each extra unit of only $4.25 as against farmer by the dealer, being obtained for less charges. An extra 3 p bringing the formula will increase the pro mixing $5.25. The mixing of relatively simple. Any wagon-box may be hand may be employed are spread in layers, bulky first, and together. The mix through a screen, and ken up with a tamp shovel. A Department spec long handled mortars and some will find tool, but its purchase this purpose is not large amounts are would probably pay rotary mixer, such as crete mixing on the should be continued is fine and uniform, be bagged and stored until used. To avoid caking ingredients should mner in the same mixture One of the easiest home mixing is to do already in use. A take a mixture which ceessfully used on th ing on similar soil,mixed goods,and t home mixture of si will cost. A general rule to formulas is first to centages are require materials shall be us a hot spell between rains knocked out a goodly proportion of the first planting of sugar beets. The second planting was none too successful, owing largely to the lack of timely rains. In the Los Alamitos and lowlands sections farmers are already irrigating their sugar beets. The lima bean crop is problematical. Much depends upon weather conditions. Many things might happen. There might be a lot of rain in May, A hot spell might come in June or July and set the limas back considerably. With a short supply of moisture under the surface it is feared that the limas will not be able to stand hot weather as well as they would in normal years. Again, the summer might be cool with plenty of low fogs. If so, the lima will thrive perhaps beyond present expectations. FLOOD CONTROL Chairman Cuttle of the Tri-Counties Reforestation Committee has just returned from Sacramento where he went on a hurry call from Senator Evans who wired that the Conservatory Act would have to be changed in some particulars in order to get it through. On arrival in Sacramento Mr. Cuttle found that the State Engineer's office questioned the advisability of giving authority to boards of supervisors to issue bonds upon lands in conservancy districts. In the Conservancy Act it was optional with the board of directors whether to petition the supervisors to issue the bonds in the amount necessary to complete the work or to call an election of the land owners in the district for the issuance of bonds. The first provision has now been eliminated from the act and this meets with the approval of the State Engl. STATE WIDE FLOOD CONTROL To enlist the aid of the southern part of the State in a State-wide flood control and reclamation scheme, Melville Dozier, Jr., general manager of the State Reclamation Board, and George W. Peltier, Sacramento banker, were in Los Angeles Friday conferring with State, municipal and county officials. According to Peltier, the Sacramento and San Joaquin valley counties are backing the plan which will be presented to the next legislature. While the plan has been begun as a reclamation project, it is proposed to extend it to embrace flood control in all portions of the State, Peltier said. The increasing damage done each year by storm waters has made it necessary to evolve some plan on a large scale to curb disastrous floods, it was contended. ACTIVITY AT PLACENTIA Activity continues unabated in the Placentia oil fields and the region east of town begins to show quite a forest. One of the best things about the way the beans have been coming on is that nearly all of the seed have sprouted. In some of the fields there is such an even stand that it looks as though none of the seed had rotted. Roy Browning began planting a week ago yesterday, and in five days the beans were sprouting ano almost up, though planted deeper than Hellis planted. A general rule to formulas is first to centages are required materials shall be used phosphoric acid (P₂O₅) phate is almost unity this. With 12 per cent of phosphorus in the mixture, they be as follows: If they were acid phosphates 12 per cent; as desired, take eight thirds of the mixture phate or 1,222 pounds is wanted, take six half or 1,000 pounds larly with nitrogen. contains 15.65 per cent and 2 per cent of no 2x15.65 or approx. of the mixture or 25% will be the amount. Similarly with potash has Nebraska potash per cent of potash, cent in the mixture twenty-seconds or one material, giving a pounds, in a ton. Any other material a similar manner. It to be exact down to a per cent, as fertilizer not cause loss in the use of the mixture. ANAHEIM GAZETTE of derricks, with more going up, says the Courier. The Midway Petroleum got boilers in Monday for Yarnell No. 1, north-east of Bradford 1, and the next day hauled in the boilers for Yarnell No. 2, east of Bradford 2. The Union has material on the ground for Newell 1, and the Amalgamated is rigging up for Potter 1, east of Newell. Thompson-Goodman 1 and Bradford 1 and 2 are rigged up and the derrick is up for Bradford 3. Loftus & O'Brien leased their land this week to the Standard. Their holdings comprise 90 acres a short distance north and west of the Chapman gusher. The amount of bonus is not given out but probably runs between $500 and $1000 an acre. HOME MIXED FERTILIZER CHEAPER TO GROWERS Department of Agriculture Gives Methods and Cost of Materials. Home mixing of fertilizer materials is cheaper than buying ready mixed fertilizers. The saving varies from time to time, according to fertilizer experts of the United States Department of Agriculture, but the balance is always on the side of home mixing and is always substantial. Also, the home mixed fertilizer is frequently better than the ready-mixed ones. A retail price, for example, of a 2-8-2 mixture quoted farmers in January, 1919, at Washington, D. C., was $52 a ton. Acid phosphate can be purchased in the same locality for $22 a ton, government nitrate of soda for $81 a ton, plus freight, and potash for $4.25 a unit in large lots. At these figures the phosphoric acid in a ton of home-mixed fertilizer would cost less than $15 per liter. DON'T WANT GANDIER Temperance leaders in the United States are very much concerned by the attitude of the English authorities in refusing to permit literature or speakers on behalf of the cause to enter British territory. It is probable the matter will be taken up with the State Department. As a specific instance of the denial of passports, the league officials refer to the case of Rev. D. M. Gandier of California and Miss Anna Gordon, national president of the W. C. T. U. They desired to go Scotland to participate in local option campaign. They were refused passports with explanation that England did not desire the presence of "agitators" of the temperance cause anywhere in her territory. The above clipping from the Associated Press dispatches met the eye of Capt. Alexander Henry, and he expresses the opinion that if Dr. Gandier should succeed in breaking through the restrictions he would not receive a very cordial welcome in Scotland or any other portion of the British Isles. The captain served in the British navy from the days of his youth until after the Crimean war where he helped whip the Russians, and he declares it is the custom on both land and sea for the British fighter to receive his issue of rum twice a day, and he don't believe his fighting ability or his endurance was impaired by it. There would be a vigorous war, he says, if the government should attempt to discontinue this custom, therefore the agitators will have a difficult job making Great Britain dry. ANOTHER HITCH There is a hitch in war-time prohibition, says Col. Harvey in Harvey's Weekly. The thing has been enacted IN THE OIL FIELD (From Brea Progress) Southern California has become the home of the big wells. During the last ten days three wells went on production with an aggregate of ten thousand barrels. The field now shows more wells drilling than ever before, the number being 110. The number of producers grows each week until the figure is 804 wells. The daily output of the field is now eighty thousand barrels. This means that every well in the field is averaging close to one hundred barrels, while many of them are doing better than 4,000 barrels. Wells are being completed on an average of three a week, and new locations are running as high as five in a single week. The Heffron well, drilling in the sand wash of the Santa Ana river, is showing better as the depth increases. At 1440 feet, the present depth, the quantity of gas shows quite an increase, and the oil colors are stronger than at any previous depth. The workers on the well are running twelve hour shifts and every effort is being made to get the well completed as soon as possible. The Petroleum Development Company (Santa Fe) has two wells ready for drilling. No. 1 on the Bradford property is rigged up and drilling is to start this week. On the Joaquin tract a rig is up and drilling will start in a very few days. At Kramer 2-1 the Standard encountered a hard sand and conglomerate formation and has been unable to duplicate its record of 600 feet. A retail price, for example, of a 2-8-2 mixture quoted farmers in January, 1919, at Washington, D.C., was $52 a ton. Acid phosphate can be purchased in the same locality for $22 a ton, government nitrate of soda for $81 a ton, plus freight, and potash for $4.25 a unit in large lots. At these figures the phosphoric acid in a ton of home-mixed fertilizer would cost less than $15, the nitrogen $1.25 and the potash $8.50, a total of $33.75 a difference in favor of home mixing. If $3.25 a ton is allowed for mixing and other charges, the saving is $15 a ton. Each extra unit of potash will cost only $4.25 as against $6 charged the farmer by the dealer, the nitrogen also being obtained for less than the dealer charges. An extra 3 per cent of potash bringing the formula up to 5 per cent will increase the profit a ton for home mixing $5.25. The mixing of materials is comparatively simple. Any tight floor or a wagon-box may be used and tools at hand may be employed. The materials are spread in layers, usually the most bulky first, and thoroughly shoveled together. The mixture is passed through a screen, and lumps are broken up with a tamper or the back of a shovel. A Department specialist uses a large long handled mortar for mixing and some will find this a convenient tool, but its purchase especially for this purpose is not necessary. Where large amounts are to be mixed it would probably pay to buy a small rotary mixer, such as is sold for concrete mixing on the farm. The mixing should be continued until the material is fine and uniform, and then it may be bagged and stored in a dry place until used. To avoid caking and losses, certain ingredients should not be used together in the same mixture. One of the easiest ways to start home mixing is to duplicate a formula already in use. A beginner should take a mixture which has been successfully used on the crop he is raising on similar soil, get a price on the mixed goods, and then see what a home mixture of similar composition will cost. A general rule to use in making up formulas is first to decide what percentages are required, and then what materials shall be used. Start with the issue of rum twice a day, and he don't believe his fighting ability or his endurance was impaired by it. There would be a vigorous war, he says, if the government should attempt to discontinue this custom, therefore the agitators will have a difficult job making Great Britain dry. ANOTHER HITCH There is a hitch in war-time prohibition, says Col. Harvey in Harvey's Weekly. The thing has been enacted and proclaimed. So far as we officially know, our success in the war, and the fulfillment of the Fourteen Commandments, still depends upon the nation's "going dry" on July 1. Strangely enough, however, while this indispensable act of national sarcination has been, as we have said, enacted, signed and promulgated, no provision whatever has been made for its enforcement. The Internal Revenue bureau has hitherto been the official champion of excise laws, tracing the blind tiger to his lair and battling with the moonshiner on his native heath. But now the Commissioner declares that this war-time prohibition is no business of his, as obviously it isn't. It is the Commissioner's business to look out for revenue, but this is a matter not of revenue but of renunciation. The gentlemen who distil spiritus frumenti after June 30 will do so without licenses, of course; but then—they couldn't get licenses, anyway, because none will then be issued; so they will not be culpable for not getting them. They will be making the stuff without paying taxes on it, but then—there will be no taxes imposed on it for them to pay. So in the absence of licenses there can be no violation of the license law, and in the absence of taxes there can be no tax-dodging. Wherefore, like the traditional flowers that bloom in the spring, the issuer of licenses and the collector of taxes will have nothing to do with the case. Who, then, shall enforce the law? We should not be a bit surprised to see the Politicalmaster-General grab at the job just as he grabbed at the cables and telephones and all the rest. But in default of him, who? The United States District Attorneys? Beyond doubt they are the prosecuting officers. But we are not informed that any provision has yet been made for them to have a numerous army of stool-pigeons and spies to listen at the doors for the popping of corks and to peer through The Petroleum Development Company (Santa Fe) has two wells ready for drilling. No.1 on the Bradford property is rigged up and drilling is to start this week. On the Joaquin tract a rig is up and drilling will start in a very few days. At Kramer 2-1 the Standard encountered a hard sand and conglomerate formation and has been unable to duplicate its record of 600 feet, made the previous week. At 1200 feet, the present depth, the formation is very hard, and for this reason the Sharp and Hughes bits are being used in connection with the fish-tails. The Standard has started drilling on the Collis farm, a property situated west of the Union's Chapman. During the week over 500 feet of hole was made on this well. Drilling is being done with the rotary. An element of doubt is beginning to feature the progress of the Standard's Anaheim Union and Lock wells. Both these wells are in the neighborhood of 3700 feet deep and neither of them are showing any encouragement. The Union Oil Company has started work on two new properties in the Chapman veld. On the Newell ranch, a property across from the Chapman, the Union is putting materials on the ground for a rig. On the Thompson and Goodwin tract, a mile east of the Chapman, the Union has a rig up and will start drilling there before the end of the week. The Amelgamated Ibbitson well, now drilling at 2610 feet, is not showing any signs of oil and begins to give evidence of a deep well if oil struck at all. The formation is brown shale At No.1 on the Yorba property good time is being made. Here some 200 feet of hole was made in spite of the fact that the formation is conglomerate, a formation that means slow drilling always. The Chas. F. Potter ranch has been leased by the Amalgamated Oil Company and preparations for immediate development has started. The property is not far from the big Chapman well and is regarded as very promising. Construction work on a derrick has started. One of the easiest ways to start home mixing is to duplicate a formula already in use. A beginner should take a mixture, which has been successfully used on the crop he is raising on similar soil, get a price on the mixed goods, and then see what a home mixture of similar composition will cost. A general rule to use in making up formulas is first to decide what percentages are required, and then what materials shall be used. Start with the phosphoric acid (P2O5). Acid phosphate is almost universally used for this. With 12 per cent goods and 8 per cent of phosphoric acid desired in the mixture, the reasoning would be as follows: If the whole mixture were acid phosphate, it would contain 12 per cent; as 18 per cent is desired, take eight-twelfths or two-thirds of the mixture of acid phosphate or 1,222 pounds; if 6 per cent is wanted, take six-twelfths or one-half or 1,000 pounds; in a ton. Similarly with nitrogen. If nitrate of soda contains 15.65 per cent of nitrogen, and 2 per cent of nitrogen is wanted, 2x15.65 or approximately one-eighth of the mixture or 250 pounds in a ton will be the amount. Similarly with potash. If the farmer has Nebraska potash salts carrying 22 per cent of potash, and desires 2 per cent in the mixture, he puts in two twenty-seconds or one-eleventh of this material, giving approximately 182 pounds, in a ton. Any other material may be used in a similar manner. It is not necessary to be exact down to the fraction of a per cent, as fertilizer application is not an exact science, and a slight mistake in the circulation usually will not cause loss in the agricultural value of the mixture. We should not be a bit surprised to see the Politicalmaster-General grab at the job just as he grabbed at the cables and telephones and all the rest. But in default of him, who? The United States District Attorneys? Beyond doubt they are the prosecuting officers. But we are not informed that any provision has yet been made for them to have a numerous army of stool-pigeons and spies to listen at the doors for the popping of corks and to peer through keyholes for the glow of wine when it is red in the cup. The District Attorney prosecutes cases when they are presented to him, and he sends the Grand Jury abroad sometimes, on an inquest. But generally that body acts only upon such cases as are presented to it by the prosecutor. If either it or he is to await and to depend upon the preferring of complaints by voluntary inquisitors, we shall presently see a joyous sight, with zealous prohibitionists playing the part of neighborhood Paul Prys, while, in communities where no man cares to incur the odium of spying, the law will remain a dead letter. The case is quite characteristic of the slap-dash way in which this and other fool legislation has been imposed upon this long-suffering nation. Although we were told that the thing was vitally necessary to our winning war, it was left fatally incomplete; and the President, who wanted it, is so busy trying to persuade Europe that he is the whole United States of America, that he cannot or will not provide for its completion by giving Congress a chance to enact the necessary legislation. Anaheim Gazette, per year, $1.50, payable in advance. The Chas. F. Potter ranch has been leased by the Amalgamated Oil Company and preparations for immediate development has started. The property is not far from the big Chapman well and is regarded as very promising. Construction work on a derrick has started. The Petroleum Midway Ltd., has entered the Chapman field and is staking off wells on the Yarnell property recently leased. The California Star Oil Company, an affiliated company of the California Petroleum corporation, is to manage the work here. Three wells have been located, and it is understood that the drilling will commence on these as soon as the preparations are completed. Things are going good for the Union on the Meyer wild cat well. The well is being cleaned out, a late report stating that this work is now at 4445, 150 feet off bottom. As soon as the cleaning out is finished work will be started to shut off the water; the water troubles taken care of, the drilling will be resumed. During the past week there has been some movement toward further leasing of lands in the vicinity of the well. The oil showing reported by the Amalgamated Oil Company at Huntington No. 2 has dissappeared and the well is now drilling in a white sand at 1050 feet. Anaheim Gazette, per year, $1.50, payable in advance. EVERY MAN SHOULD BE WELL DRESSED To be well dressed, his clothes should be made by a "house of reputation" they should be well fashioned and fit perfectly. That's why we recommend the clothing made by Michaels-Stern. When you buy a suit at this store, you can feel well dressed. For High School Young Men we feature "Frat Clothes" because they have the snap to them. "Prices always reasonable at this store." We price our suits from $15.00 to $40.00. JACKSON'S MEN'S WEAR SHOP. YOUR MONEY'S WORTH ALWAYS ANAHEIM Fertilizer buy Steer Manure or Analysis! —get steer manure from paved corrals! Buy it on analysis! In Globe A-1 Fertilizer you know what you are getting before you buy because you can come to our plant, draw your own sample and see analysis of recent shipments. 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