anaheim-gazette 1919-06-19

UNUSUAL SEASON FOR ORCHARD ENEMIES PROGRESS MADE BY INSECT PESTS AND PLANT DISEASES DURING YEAR REVIEWED Codling Moth Responsible for 50 Per Cent Damage in Some Localities. —Other Pests Have Been Extremely Active. The past year has not been especially notable through the activities of any particular insect or plant disease, although the damage caused by these pests as a whole has been large, says the report of the committee on insect pests and plant disease, California Association of Nurserymen. Perhaps the most unusual outbreak has been that of the codling moth in English walnuts. While the insect has occasionally been reported as attacking this crop in past years, it was not until this season that it proved itself capable of being a real menace to the industry. In some localities in the counties of Los Angeles, Orange and Santa Barbara it destroyed as much as 50 per cent of the walnut crop. At first it was thought to be a different species from that attacking apples and pears, but studies by specialists of the U. S. National Museum, to whom we sent specimens, proved it to be the common apple species. been very severe in some localities. The peach blight fungus has also been observed, but it seems well under control at present, due to methodic spraying. Pear blight has caused its usual damage, being more severe in some localities, and in others less noticed. The work with blight resistant root-stocks is well under way, and from experience will be a great factor in protecting future orchards from the most severe attacks. The enormous importance of the pest control problem in California is evidenced by the fact that we spent during the past year over two and a half millions of dollars for spraying and fumigating chemicals, to say nothing of the cost of labor, machinery, etc. The earnest co-operation of the nurserymen, which I believe we have, is necessary if we are to check this rapidly increasing expense. CAMPFIRE PERMIT Of interest to those who spend their vacations in the mountains of the Cleveland National Forest is the requirement, now universal in the national forests of the south, to secure a special permit before campfires may be built on national forest land. Each year during the fire season many disastrous fires are caused by careless campers who build their campfires in a dangerous place or manner or neglect to extinguish them. Last season the campfire permit requirement covered only the San Jacinto and Trabuco districts, but from now on the requirement will be the same all over the forest—that one must first secure a special permit before building a campfire on national forest land. This includes federal lands in the Santa ing this crop in past years, it was not until this season that it proved itself capable of being a real menace to the industry. In some localities in the counties of Los Angeles, Orange and Santa Barbara it destroyed as much as 50 per cent of the walnut crop. At first it was thought to be a different species from that attacking apples and pears, but studies by specialists of the U.S. National Museum, to whom we sent specimens, proved it to be the common apple species. Work is now under way by the state commission of horticulture and the University of California, which has as its object the prevention of spread of the pest through the sterilization of walnut sacks and the control of the moth in the orchard. Mealybugs, as usual, have held a prominent place among the pests of 1918 horticulture. Magnificent results have been obtained by the state commission of horticulture in the control of these pests on citrus by the use of their natural enemies. On grapes the Baker mealybug was much in evidence and the problem is yet unsolved. We are at this time organizing a branch insectary at Fresno to give the method which has proven so successful against the citrus mealybug a trial. A mealybug new to California and working on citrus has recently broken out in the south. It is a Japanese species and an effort will be made to control it by the importation of parasites from Japan, where we know that several occur. Mealybugs are gradually spreading to uninfested regions in the state, and great care should be taken by nurserymen to prevent infested material from leaving the nursery, since these pests are difficult to control and are a source of great expense to our fruit growers. The state commission of horticulture, now that the war is over, expects to resume active work in the importation of beneficial insects. We have already employed an expert collector for this work and expect to send him to South Africa as soon as a boat is available, for the purpose of obtaining natural enemies of the black scale and mealybugs. During the present spring, aphis of various kinds have been unusually abundant on account of the cold weather. Grasshoppers, too, are causing much damage particularly to young orchards. The strawberry root worm, an eastern species, has appeared in California many disastrous fires are caused by careless campers who build their campfires in a dangerous place or manner or neglect to extinguish them. Last season the campfire permit requirement covered only the San Jacinto and Trabuco districts, but from now on the requirement will be the same all over the forest—that one must first secure a special permit before building a campfire on national forest land. This includes federal lands in the Santa Ana mountains. No charge is made for these permits and they may be obtained from any forest officer or authorized agent. The face of the permit gives rules for safe construction and extinguishing of campfires as well as general rules for care with fire in the mountains. The permit also provides a means for forest officers to meet campers and speak to them in general of the fire danger and, since in issueing a permit, the camper's name, his home address and location of the proposed camp is recorded for future, reference it is felt that the moral effect on a camper, who might otherwise be inclined to carelessness, will be beneficial. COMING AROUND "Personal liberty is slowly but surely being encroached upon, and business upset continually by supervisory, and in many cases, unnecessary government interference," declared Arthur J. Draper, president of the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association, at the annual meeting of that body in Atlantic City recently. The doctrine of States' Rights is becoming a 'back number,' he asserted. Mr. Draper declared that our mill men and the average business men of this country are decent, law abiding citizens; that competition and good sense will steadily improve present conditions, and if we are to avert chaos we must have the backbone to stand up and fight for what we think is right. Speaking of the tariff, he said: "One thing is certain; if we are to continue our present high wage scale and standard of living, there must be a barrier high enough to keep out an influx of cotton goods made by cheaper labor. Likewise, regarding our export trade without some form of government assistance, we can not operate our wonderful merchant marine in competition with most or all of the ships of United States, judges, mclers of world-wide fame, the ranks of all of these the early days on the ww in the little red school the watchful eye of the teacher. The one most necessary schooling in the country good road to the school of the children have to reach the place where school. Many others are by wagons or other vehicles traveling by farm wages, the question of go vital one. Even in a Southern California fall does not reach the a season of rainfall, an son when dust lies thick when traveling over well-nigh impossible. We have been established country the cause of oishes, and the little recourse packed with schools comers to a community in reaching the school mobile Club of South readily enables anyone right direction, through posting of highways. Attendance of scholars both is perceptible the districts which he ways. The passage of Bond Measure on July be a most momentous increasing the facilities throughout the rural only that, but the scho often the only places meetings can be held, During the present spring, aphis of various kinds have been unusually abundant on account of the cold weather. Grasshoppers, too, are causing much damage, particularly to young orchards. The strawberry root worm, an eastern species, has appeared in California and is reported as causing some alarm in Santa Clara county. During the past year more than usual damage has occurred to citrus on account of thrips. Red spiders also have been very prevalent and much injury has been done. The crown girdle of young prune trees has been observed in a number of young and promising orchards. Most of the trees found affected are growing on good soils. Trees from three to ten years are most affected. When the disease is present it spreads slowly. In some cases it is fatal to the tree. In most cases it takes the vitality out of the tree, brings it to quick overbearing and causes it to shed its fruit. The disturbance is undoubtedly caused by a specific organism, in all likelihood a fungus. The bacterial gumosis of the apricot is spreading. It is a disease that is dangerous if it gets entrance to the nursery, on account of the fact that infection may be latent, and so be passed over unnoticed. It is then of the utmost importance that the nursery should be well guarded against this infection, and such knowledge should be broadcasted so that every responsible person dealing with nursery stock should be able to acquire the necessary information. The brown rot of stone fruits has fight for what we think is right. Speaking of the tariff, he said: "One thing is certain; if we are to continue our present high wage scale and standard of living, there must be a barrier high enough to keep out an influx of cotton goods made by cheaper labor. Likewise, regarding our export trade without some form of government assistance, we can not operate our wonderful merchant marine in competition with most or all of the ships of other countries. The Association of which Mr. Draper is president is composed of southern membership, and now represents nearly 11,000,000 spindles. For the past six years, or ever since the Wilson-Underwood near-free-trade law was in operation, this association has been undergoing a rapid and solid conversion on the subject of tariffs until today it is one of the staunchest supporters of the republican policy. The best way to insure protection as a permanent policy is for men like Mr. Draper, and associations like that of which he is president, to co-operate in keeping the protection party in power. One would think they had had quite enough experience with paternalism and free trade under the present dictatorship. GOOD ROADS AND COUNTRY SCHOOLS The little red school house has won fame for this country. Within its wooden walls some of the greatest minds of the country have received their first rudiments of education. In the yard, flying to the breeze, the folds of the national emblem have painted the skies all the length the breadth of the United States. Lawyers, governors of states, presidents of the posting of highways. Attendance of schools both is perceptible in districts which have ways. The passage of Bond Measure on July be a most momentous increase in the facilities throughout the rural only that, but the school often the only places meetings can be held, societies can conductments, and where the honored American institution spelling-match can be. Economy in the matter shoes and clothing is be considered. Dust and a hurtful effect on the clothing of the young tendency to wade in kick up the dust only more destructive to the matter of health roads have a paramount over the bad ones. Class highway is always travel over than one with dust or which has struggle through. From every point of vtional angle, good road blessing. It is to every man woman in India will vote "Yes" or measure for among them to be derived from the measure, the benefiting one which is to be seen with. POULTRY PRINT A net return of m and one-half month PRINCE ALBERT LAY your smoketaste flush up against a listening post—and you'll get the Prince Albert call, all right! You'll hunt a jimmy pipe so quick and get so much tobacco joy out of every puff you'll wish you had been born twins! For, Prince Albert puts over a turn new to every man fond of a pipe or a home made cigarette. It wins your glad hand completely. That's because it has the quality! And, right behind this quality flavor and quality fragrance is Prince Albert's freedom from bite and parch which is cut out by our exclusive patented process. We tell you to smoke your fill at any clip—jimmy United States, judges, ministers, financiers of world-wide fame—recruits to the ranks of all of these have sat, in the early days on the wooden benches in the little red schoolhouse, under the watchful eye of the country school teacher. The one most necessary essential to schooling in the country districts is a good road to the school house. Many of the children have to walk miles to reach the place where they go to school. Many others are taken there by wagons or other vehicles. To all, whether on foot or horseback, whether traveling by farm wagon or automobile, the question of good roads is a vital one. Even in a country like Southern California where the snowfall does not reach the roads, there is a season of rainfall, and the dry season when dust lies thick on the roads when traveling over a bad road is well-nigh impossible. Where good roads have been established throughout a country the cause of education flourishes, and the little red school houses are packed with scholars. Even new comers to a community have no trouble in reaching the schools, as the Automobile Club of Southern California readily enables anyone to go in the right direction, through its accurate posting of highways. Attendance of scholars and teachers both is perceptibly increased in the districts which have good highways. The passage of the Good Roads Bond Measure on July 1st, next, will be a most momentous step forward in increasing the facilities for education throughout the rural districts. Not only that, but the school houses are often the only places where public meetings can be held, where debating can conduct their entertainment on the farm is the record made by a Glendale, Ariz., poultry raiser, who is carrying on his operations under the direction of a poultry expert of the United States Department of Agriculture. In connection with his general farm work he kept a flock of 210 hens, which produced an average of 10 dozen eggs during the four winter months. During February the eggs brought an average of 55 cents a dozen, or approximately $150, while the feed bill, including the feed for the young chicks, amounted to $50. The following month the flock showed a profit of a little over $100. During the first half of April the gross receipts were $97.50. In April the extension specialist conducted a culling demonstration on this farm and weeded 56 hens from the flock. The culled hens were kept in a separate pen for a week following the demonstration, and made practically no returns in egg yields. This indicates, the specialist says, that the remaining 154 hens probably made the record with which the entire 210 had been credited. RAILROAD POLICY Congress, in its present session, can hardly fail to dispose of the problem of the railroad. The matter is giving the country grave concern and should be adjusted as quickly as possible. Railroad after railroad is showing either a decrease in net earnings or an increase in the deficit. Cost of operation is mounting much faster than the gain in operating income. The swollen payrolls of our railways are laying a burden on the various lines that will have to be taken up by the taxpayer. Not only have it invested in railways should be made certain through a government undertaking. Second: The railways should be consolidated into a comparatively few systems, and by a few is meant not more than eighteen. Third: The railways should be operated by private corporations organized under an act of congress. In discussing the necessity of making certain the return upon capital invested, Senator Cummins took a very broad ground. He pointed out the desirability of putting an end to the demoralizing struggle between railway owners and the public, a contest in which justice frequently has been ignored by both sides. "The honest investment in railway properties is entitled to protection," said the senator, "and the public is entitled to fair treatment. It is impossible to conceive of any revision of the law that will accomplish these two things without the elimination of the controversy relating to the return upon capital. The certainty of the return is also demanded because furnishing transportation is a public business; abstractly considered, there should be no speculative profit in the business." DISEASE LOSSES DECREASED Every kind of farm animals had a mortality from disease during the year ending in the Spring of 1919 below the average of the preceding ten years, with here and there a State that did not conform to this general fact for the United States. The reporters of the Bureau of Crop Estimates, United States Department of Agriculture, give to horses and mules a loss Attendance of scholars and teachers both is perceptibly increased in the districts which have good highways. The passage of the Good Roads Bond Measure on July 1st, next, will be a most momentous step forward in increasing the facilities for education throughout the rural districts. Not only that, but the school houses are often the only places where public meetings can be held, where debating societies can conduct their entertainments, and where the ancient and honored American institution of the spelling-match can be conducted. Economy in the matter of children's shoes and clothing is another point to be considered. Dust and wet both have a hurtful effect on the shoes and clothing of the youngsters, and their tendency to wade in the puddles and kick up the dust only makes bad roads more destructive to their apparel. In the matter of health, also, the good roads have a paramount advantage over the bad ones. A dustless first-class highway is always healthier to travel over than one which is thick with dust or which has miry places to struggle through. Taken, therefore, from every point of view of an educational angle, good roads are an undiluted blessing. It is to be hoped that every man woman in Southern California will vote "Yes" on this important measure for among the many benefits to be derived from the passing of the measure, the benefit to education is one which is to be seriously reckoned with. POULTRY PROFITABLE SIDELINE A net return of nearly $300 in two and one-half months from a sideline Railroad after railroad is showing either a decrease in net earnings or an increase in the deficit. Cost of operation is mounting much faster than the gain in operating income. The swollen payrolls of our railways are laying a burden on the various lines that will have to be taken up by the taxpayer. Not only have wages been tremendously increased, but the efficiency of the employees has declined to an unbelievable extent. The personnel has been increased by tens of thousands, and less work is being done than when the force was much smaller and the per capita pay was much less. The hope of the future, however, says the Wollman Review, lies in what may be done to settle the railroad question right—in the interest of all the people, shippers, the traveling public, the hundreds of thousands of employees and the security holders. As an augury that the policy to be adopted by congress will be a sound one we have the promise contained in an address of Senator Albert B. Cummins delivered before the general assembly of Iowa on March 22. He has shown in the speech referred to that he knows how to be just. Moreover, he has been one of the closest students of the railroad situation in congress. He will be the new chairman of the senate committee on railroads. The salient points of Senator Cummins's views on what should be done with the railroads were given before the legislature of his home state, as follows: First: The return upon the capitol problem of the railroad. The matter is giving the country grave concern and should be adjusted as quickly as possible. DISEASE LOSSES DECREASED Every kind of farm animals had a mortality from disease during the year ending in the Spring of 1919 below the average of the preceding ten years, with here and there a State that did not conform to this general fact for the United States. The reporters of the Bureau of Crop Estimates, United States Department of Agriculture, give to horses and mules a loss from disease amounting to only 1.57 per cent in the preceding year, the ten-year average being 1.91 per cent; cattle, 1.73 per cent, compared with 1.98 per cent; swine, the low rate of 4.14 per cent, compared with 6.68 per cent; sheep, 1.97 per cent, compared with 2.39 per cent; and lambs, the low rate of 4.83 per cent for losses from disease and exposure, compared with the eight-year average of 5.76 per cent. On account of exposure, the cattle losses of the preceding year, 1.58 per cent, are above the ten-year average of 1.43 per cent; but the sheep losses of 2.51 per cent were below the average of 2.86 per cent. SANTA FE TIME TABLE (Corrected to Date) NORTHBOUND Lv. Anaheim Ar. Los Angeles 6:19 A.M. 7:15 A.M. 10:10 A.M. 11:00 A.M. 11:58 A.M. 12:50 P.M. 4:00 P.M. 4:50 P.M. 5:43 P.M. 6:30 P.M. SOUTHBOUND Lv. Los Angeles Ar. Anaheim 8:00 A.M. 8:52 A.M. 9:00 A.M. 9:50 A.M. 2:05 P.M. 2:52 P.M. 6:00 P.M. 6:42 P.M. 11:59 P.M. 1:03 A.M. PAGE SEVEN WHY Everybody Eats at the Exchange Grill Excellent Service and Good Eating A. KLUEWER, Prop. Crystal Ice Manufactured by Crystal Ice Manufactured by The Anaheim Crystal Ice and Cold Storage Co. The only ice from pure distilled water manufactured in Anaheim. Delivered to all parts of the city and surrounding country. Phone 590 Anaheim, Cal. SEEGER Siphon Refrigerators. QUICK MEAL Stoves—Oil, Gas, or Gasoline. Shipped Everywhere. Write for Catalogue. Anglo-Range and Refrigerator Co. 803 So. Hill St. Los Angeles CERTIFICATE OF CO-PARTNERSHIP We, the undersigned, do hereby certify that we are co-partners, transacting business in Anaheim, Orange County, California, under the firm name and style of Walter & Day. That the names in full of all of the members of said co-partnership are as follows: Joe E. Walter, whose place of residence is No. 306 East Center Street, Anaheim, California; Charles Omer Day, whose place of residence is No. 218 North Olive Street Anaheim, California. IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands this 29th day of May, 1919. CHARLES OMER DAY JOE E WALTER State of California,) County of Orange SECTION TWO WATER COMPANY A Corporation, Location of Principal Place of Business, Anaheim, California. Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the directors of said Section Two Water Company, a corporation, held on the 3rd day of March, 1919, an assessment of two and one-half dollars ($2.50) per share was levied upon the capital stock of the corporation, payable immediately, in United States gold coin, to the secretary, at the office of the company, Anaheim, California, R. F. D. 3, Box 108. Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid on the 15th day of July, 1919, will be delinquent and advertised for sale, at public auc- Joe E. Walter, whose place of residence is No. 306 East Center Street, Anaheim, California; Charles Omer Day, whose place of residence is No. 218 North Olive Street Anaheim, California. IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands this 29th day of May, 1919. CHARLES OMER DAY JOE E WALTER State of California,) County of Orange ) On this 29th day of May, 1919, before me, Homer G. Ames, a Notary Public in and for said county, personally appeared Joe E. Walser and Charles Omer Day, known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the annexed instrument and acknowledged to me that they executed the same. WITNESS my hand and official seal. (Notarial) (Seal) HOMER G. AMES Notary Public in and for the County of Orange, State of California. 6-5-5t "BALL'S BEST" PLUG SMOKING A clean, mild Virginia Tobacco in plugs, or sliced ready to rub. Made expressly for us. Sent by mail, anywhere, post and tax paid. $1.20 pound. W. F. Ball Est., 1882. THE BIG PIPE STORE, 110 N. Spring St., Los Angeles. In number of animals, the farm horses lost from disease during the last year were over 415,000; cattle, from disease and exposure, nearly 2,247,000; swine, from disease, nearly 3,128,000; sheep, from disease and ex- Two Water Company, a corporation held on the 3rd day of March, 1919, an assessment of two and one-half dollars ($2.50) per share was levied upon the capital stock of the corporation, payable immediately, in United States gold coin, to the secretary, at the office of the company, Anaheim, California, R. F. D. 3, Box 108. Any stock upon which this assessment shall remain unpaid on the 15th day of July, 1919, will be delinquent and advertised for sale, at public auction, and, unless payment is made before, will be sold on Saturday, the 2nd day of Aug., 1919, to pay the delinquent assessment, together with costs of advertising and expenses of sale. By order of the Board of Directors. BELLA J. WALKER, Secretary. Office at Anaheim, California, R. F. D. 3, Box 108. 6-5-4t posure, nearly 1,606,000. The money loss due to these mortalities is not reported, but computed at the average head value for all animals of each kind, the aggregate would amount to more than $200,000,000. Approaching the end of the fiscal year, Orange county was never in better fix financially, so far as actual cash and securities in the county treasurer's office are concerned, than it is today. County Auditor W. C. Jerome has posted the monthly financial statement of the county, as follows: Money loaned to banks at 2 per cent; $542,000; United States coin; $51.10; currency; $223,245; money in transit; $34,040.56. In addition to this $799,336.66, the countp has $125,000 in Liberty bonds. Anaheim Gazette, per year; $1.50, payable in advance.