anaheim-gazette 1919-05-22

ROOM IN UNITED STATES FOR MORE FARMERS Hundreds of Millions of Acres Can be Reclaimed. The United States has approximately 850,000,000 acres of land—45 per cent of the country's land area—in crops or available for crop production, according to recent estimates of United States Department of Agriculture specialists. Of this amount approximately 480,000,000 acres were improved land in 1910; the remainder consisting of 200,000,000 acres of potentially arable forest and cut-over land, 60,000,000 acres of swamps and other wet lands needing drainage, 30,000,000 acres of potentially irrigable land, and other 80,000,000 acres of unimproved land other than woodland. Over 1,000,000,000 acres of land in the United States are not adapted to cultivation, of which at least 360,000,000 acres may be used for forests and about 600,000,000 acres for grazing. Most of the grazing land is located in the Western States. In addition there are about 40,000,000 acres of desert land, and 40,000,000 acres of land in cities, rural highways, and railroad rights of way, an amount which will gradually increase with increasing population. Much of the nonarable land within the domain of Uncle Sam consists of land once farmed and now abandoned, as well as areas which no one has thought it worth while trying to make into farms. Topographic and climatic conditions are of primary importance in explaining why so large an area re- cities, rural highways, and railroad rights of way, an amount which will gradually increase with increasing population. Much of the nonarable land within the domain of Uncle Sam consists of land once farmed and now abandoned, as well as areas which no one has thought it worth while trying to make into farms. Topographic and climatic conditions are of primary importance in explaining why so large an area remains unimproved. Nearly one-fifth of the United States is too hilly or rough for the successful production of crops. This mountainous or stony land, where rainfall is sufficient, is adapted to forests, and where the rainfall is light, is grazed by roving flocks of sheep or by cattle. Lack of sufficient rainfall is responsible for the absence of crops in nearly one-third of the United States. During occasional years of heavier rainfall, large profits may be made growing crops in those semiarid regions, but in the long run, it pays better in most localities to use such land for grazing and grow in swales and seepage basins only a few acres of crops for supplementary feed. Another factor restricting the cultivated area is the length of the growing season. Over a large extent of elevated land in the West, and also in the Adirondacks and a part of Northern Maine, the average growing season is less than ninety days, while frosts may occur during the summer. There is also much land where the soil is too sandy or infertile for the profitable production of crops. Such soils are better adapted to forests, and when cleared for agricultural use are generally soon allowed to grow up again in brush and trees. About one-fifth of a billion acres of the cut-over land and woodland in the United States might be cleared up and the stumps removed so that the land would be available for productive farming. However, this work would involve heavy expenditures, and on this account clearing is slow, as farmers usually prefer to locate on land which does not involve so much pioneering. If all this agriculturally suitable forest and cut-over land could be made into farms averaging 160 acres it would provide 1,250,000 farms, an increase of about 20 per cent over the present number. It is believed unlikely that more than 50,000,000 acres, or enough for perhaps 300,000 farms, will be cleared by the present generation unless the government assumes no cities, rural highways, and railroad rights of way, an amount which will gradually increase with increasing population. KEEP Your Liberty Born in a safe place. Don't exchange them less securities or sell them except pressure of dire necessity. Why we worked out Our New Plan of Accepting Bonds on Deposit We clipping the coupons, crediting storing the bonds, etc. Many people have adopted this convenient plan since our first announcement COME IN TODAY There Is No Charge for This Anaheim National And They Say Some of the namby-pamby folks in several of the burgs roundabout have started the ball rolling to have the school teachers spend the week ends in the communities in which they happened to be employed in teaching the young idea how to shoot. Upon its face value it would appear that this latest edict would come perilously near depriving the teachers of their constitutional rights. Where these disseminators of knowledge are capable and efficient what difference is it whether they stick around their daily stamping grounds or hit themselves away for a change of scenery and recreation in many of the beautiful and attractive places that abound in this glorious southland. Many of the teachers no doubt have a home away from the place of their employment and ship during the height of folly them to remain time against them appear that were upon from the gain educational four walls of the not make much teachers passed duty. The practice among firemen leap to reach a fiddly moving motto to a fire should safety-first measure casions in the from serious injury witnessed and th of climbing upon tirely too hazard this account clearing is slow, as farmers usually prefer to locate on land which does not involve so much pioneering. If all this agriculturally suitable forest and cut-over land could be made into farms averaging 160 acres it would provide 1,250,000 farms, an increase of about 20 per cent over the present number. It is believed unlikely that more than 50,000,000 acres, or enough for perhaps 300,000 farms, will be cleared by the present generation unless the government assumes responsibility. Another undeveloped agricultural resource consists of swamps and overflow lands that may be drained. It is estimated that there are some 60,000,000 acres of such land suitable for the production of crops after reclamation, or enough to make 1,000,000 farms of sixty acres. Most of this land, located largely in the Mississippi River bottoms and other river bottoms of the southern Costal Plain and in the peat bogs and muck lands of the lake States and Northeastern States, is potentially fertile, but as drainage is expensive it will probably be at least another half century before all or even much of this area is reclaimed. The irrigated sections of the Western States have approximately 30,000,000 acres of land still available for farming purposes if complete utilization is made of the potential water supply. This is double the present area of the irrigated land and would provide 340,000 farms averaging eighty-seven acres, which is the average farm acreage of irrigated land shown by the 1910 census. However, construction of irrigation dams and canals is so expensive that it will be many years before much of this land is put in crops. In the Eastern States and in the Great Plains region much waste land is classified in the census reports as "unimproved land other than woodland." It consists of stony upland pastures in hilly regions and other parcels of waste land in eastern farms and of grazing land in western ranches, aggregating in all about 50,000,000 acres. Some of this land in the East at one time was cropped and now constitutes in part the so-called abandoned farms. If prices of farm products continue high and farm labor again becomes comparatively cheap, a portion of this land will undoubtedly be reclaimed for crop production. The further development of dry farming may also make room for a few more farmers in the West. Under the 640-acre grazing homestead act, passed in 1916 more than 45,000 applications had been made and approved by October1, 1916. In the opinion of department specialists, however, most of the grazing homesteads offering promise of supporting a family have been applied for. The practice has among firemen leap to reach a fire idly moving motors to a fire should safety-first measure casions in the from serious injury witnessed and the of climbing upon tirely too hazardous. A man must need athlete to get abiding fire truck or favorable circumstances anyone to take to jump onto the tion comes very easily. It would appear should be arranged and policemen to who perchance fire station when ed may go along other members have other means run to the scene may be the meant all means these discontinued. The report of city of Fullerton shows a balance of $69,937.82, with funds total $132,978. An editor up publication copies to relate, there "special correspondence neck of the wood." A well known all how things be determined to takes all summer ANAHEIM GAZETTE MANURE AS FERTILIZER The handling of manure for use as fertilizer in citrus orchards is rapidly becoming an industry of considerable magnitude in Southern California, involving many hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. According to the last report, the Fruit Growers' Supply Company, a subsidiary organization of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange, the big citrus marketing agency, in the year 1918, handled well over one hundred thousand dollars worth of manure for its members, not to mention what was handled by the two other large companies dealing in this material. Citrus growers everywhere are beginning to realize the absolute necessity of a supply of readily decayable organic matter for use as fertilizer in order to maintain their orchards in profitable bearing condition. The supply of manure in Southern California at the present time does not equal the demand. The orchardist may find it desirable to spread it on the orchard immediately where it may lie through the winter months. In this case, the losses from leaching are not so important unless considerable run-off of rain water results. But the losses from fermentation and aerobic decay are very large. Recent researches, notably by Breazeale and McLane, have disclosed the fact that where manure is thus allowed to lie on the surface exposed to the air, 50 to 75 per cent of the nitrogen content is lost. Where manure must be stored the use of cement-lined pits is to be advised, which largely prevents the losses mentioned. KEEP Liberty Bonds! Don't exchange them for worth-or sell them except under dire necessity. That is how we worked out an of Accepting Liberty Bonds on Deposit coupons, crediting the interest, the bonds, etc. Have adopted this safe and plan since our first announcement E IN TODAY Charge for This Service National Bank ship during the week, it would be the height of folly to attempt to coerce them to remain anywhere after that time against their wishes. It would appear that were this subject looked upon from the viewpoint of ability to gain educational results within the four walls of the schoolroom it should not make much difference where the teachers passed the time when off duty. The practice heretofore in vogue among firemen of essaying a flying leap to reach a foothold upon the rapidly moving motor truck when going to a fire should be discontinued as a safety-first measure. Upon several occasions in the past narrow escapes from serious injury to men have been witnessed and those particular stunts of climbing upon the machine are entirely too hazardous for everyday use. But the losses from fermentation and aerobic decay are very large. Recent researches, notably by Breazeale and McLane, have disclosed the fact that where manure is thus allowed to lie on the surface exposed to the air, 50 to 75 per cent of the nitrogen content is lost. Where manure must be stored the use of cement-lined pits is to be advised, which largely prevents the losses mentioned. The usual method of application in the past has been to spread the manure over the surface of the orchard, either with a manure spreader or by hand, where it lies until plowed or disced under with the cover crop in the spring. When applied in the summer or fall, the common practice has been to merely cultivate it in. This method of application, especially when done in the summer or early fall, or when the disc alone is used to turn it under, is bound to result in a considerable loss of the value of the manure. Manure incorporated into the upper six or eight inches, which layer is constantly stirred by cultivation, is largely wasted and lost so far as the trees are concerned since the feeding roots are effectively kept out of this soil layer. Moreover, the constant stirring of such a layer results in a very great loss through oxidation. It can thus be seen in the light of the foregoing that in the past much of the value of manure applied to citrus orchards has been absolutely lost. The best way to conserve manure and prevent loss is, at the time of application, to cover it deeply where it is beyond the range of influence of our hot, dry atmospheric conditions and where optimum conditions for its transformation in the available plant food exist. But deep-plowing does not meet with approval with many citrus growers and especially those who have encouraged the feeding roots to come close to the surface either by surface fertilization or shallow cultivation. Under such conditions deep spring plowing may injure the trees. Other things being equal, however, just as with the cover crop, it seems desirable to plow down manure rather deeply so that it comes to lie in the vicinity of the feeding roots and where they can feed on it undisturbed by constant stirring through cultivation. Several ways of applying manure so as to accomplish these results have been used be individual growers in isolated cases for a number of years ging of pits between the trees and filling them with manure. This method, while it frequently gave very satisfactory results, has never come into extensive use, largely on account of the expense involved in digging the pits. Moreover, in certain cases the results were not immediately apparent so that except for isolated trees, this practice has been abandoned, although according to Mr. Shamel, it is still the universal method of handling manure in the citrus orchards of Brazil. One of the few men who is still using the pit method of applying manure on a commercial scale is W. D. Som- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Yielding over 7 3/4 pts PRICE DEFERRED $90. ON PARTIAL The partial payment feature scriber of small means to acquire the United States. In 17 months stock become paid in monthly installments othereafter entitles you to the reper cent interest on your instal- The practice heretofore in vogue among firemen of essaying a flying leap to reach a foothold upon the rapidly moving motor truck when going to a fire should be discontinued as a safety-first measure. Upon several occasions in the past narrow escapes from serious injury to men have been witnessed and those particular stunts of climbing upon the machine are entirely too hazardous for everyday use. A man must necessarily be a trained athlete to get aboard the rapidly moving fire truck even under the most favorable circumstances, but to allow anyone to take a hit or miss chance to jump onto the truck when in motion comes very near being criminal. It would appear that some other plan should be arranged to permit firemen and policemen to go to a fire. Anyone who perchance was on hand at the fire station when the alarm was sounded may go along with the driver, while other members further away should have other means of making a quick run to the scene of conflagration. It may be the means of saving a life. By all means these flying leaps should be discontinued. The report of the treasurer of the city of Fullerton rendered May 1st shows a balance in the general fund of $69,937.82, while moneys in all funds total $132,378.36. An editor up Brea way has had his publication copyrighted, and, strange to relate, there has been a dearth of "special correspondence" from that neck of the woods printed hereabout. A well known caterer says it beats all how things have changed, but he's determined to stick it out even if it takes all summer. Under such conditions deep spring plowing may injure the trees. Other things being equal, however, just as with the cover crop, it seems desirable to plow down manure rather deeply so that it comes to lie in the vicinity of the feeding roots and where they can feed on it undisturbed by constant stirring through cultivation. Several ways of applying manure so as to accomplish these results have been used by individual growers in isolated cases for a number of years and with considerable success, although to judge by the recent revival of interest in a modification of one of these methods, one might be led to suspect that it were something entirely new. 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This method, have very satisfacver come into extention account of the digging the pits. cases the results apparent so that trees, this practice although accordit is still the unihandling manure in of Brazil. ten who is still usef applying manure is W. D. Sommerville, superintendent of the 200-acre Evergreen ranch at La Verne. Mr. Sommerville has an acreage of young trees set in rather light sandy soil where the labor involved in making the pits is comparatively light and with these trees he has gotten splendid results from the pit manuring. He digs a pit on either side of the tree and at about the distance from the tree that the farthest feeding roots are to be found, the pits running at right angles to the direction of the irrigation furrows. Between six and ten cubic feet of manure is used to the tree, which he finds is sufficient to last for about three years, when he makes another application. 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