anaheim-gazette 1919-11-06

HENS WILL SOLVE FERTILIZER PROBLEM CITRUS GROWERS RECOMMENDED TO RAISE POULTRY AS A SIDE LINE Writer in Cultivator Discusses the Value of Chicken Droppings as Fertilizer for Citrus Trees. Recently, W. L. Grubb of Santa Ana started considerable discussion in this section of the state by declaring that the time is coming when owners of orchards will have to go into the chicken business in order to protect their orchards. He believed that the day is coming when stock manure for fertilizer will be so hard to get that the grower will have to depend on chickens as a source of fertilizer supply. The same line of argument presented by Grubb appears in an article published in the last number of te California Cultivator. Robert W. Hodgson is the author. After declaring that the present supply of animal manures are falling far short of the demand, the writer turns to "poultry as a possible solution." He says: "The principal advantages of this means of providing for the diversification of citrus orcharding so as to furnish manure for the upkeep of the or- larger than ten acres a one-man unit would be the logical thing. One man can care for 2500 hens, the manure from which would take care of the fertilization of 25 acres. On a ten-acre tract one man could therefore care for the thousand fowls required for fertilization and in addition do the greater part of the orcahrd work, since ordinarily it has been found that one man can do all the work on a 20-acre block of citrus. "In the citrus grove the hens would undoubtedly best be confined in pens first, in order that all the fertilizer might easily be recovered. "The writer realizes as well as any one that there are certain prejudices and difficulties to be overcome in making the combination of poultry with citrus orcharding above suggested. Nevertheless, it is felt that the drawbacks to such a combination are of more or less minor importance as compared to the magnitude of the problem confronting citrus growers, and such as can readily be obviated. The problem of maintaining the fertility of our orchard soils is a serious one at present and destined to become increasingly difficult. The suggestion made has been given in the hope that it may prove at least a partial solution of this problem." PREPARING TO RESIST THE JAP MENACE State Divided Into Seven Zones for the Purpose. For the purpose of crystallizing public sentiment against the Japanese invasion of California and to raise funds to combat the Aristocratic problem State help dispose of the association paign now in order beans in "the fur Seaside brand, and of the country, and the baby lima cray campaign is in life paigns conducted anges. Diamond other products be MOTOR TRUCK In the current Taxpayers' Journal Sacramento County discusses at length reference to the ways due to the report show trucks is advanced 1917. 128,157 built. In 1918, sold and the proent year is estimate trucks built this tonnage capacity hundred and seventy 83%, will be of less, and their ca 59½% of the total be built. Truck tons capacity will the number, and pacity. Trucks o institute 5% of the 16% of the total carry more than 1% of the num- After declaring that the present supply of animal manures are falling far short of the demand, the writer turns to "poultry as a possible solution." He says: "The principal advantages of this means of providing for the diversification of citrus orcharding so as to furnish manure for the upkeep of the orchard soils lie first, in the slight effect such a movement would have in disturbing present economic conditions; second, in the relatively small amount of land required to keep sufficient poultry to adequately provide for the fertilizer requirements of the trees; third, in the small amount of labor and capital required to make the desired change, and last, in the unexcelled character of the fertilizer obtained. "Careful experiments have shown that when confined, and all the fertilizer recovered, one may expect to receive 70 pounds of droppings and 30 pounds of litter per fowl per year, or some hundred pounds of fertilizer. Analyses have repeatedly shown that under California conditions where the fowls are fed a balanced ration poultry droppings will run from one to three per cent nitrogen. On a basis of two per cent nitrogen the manure from one hen during a year would contain that amount recovered from approximately 12 pounds of nitrate of soda, or 10 pounds of sulphate of ammonia, which any orchardist will at once recognize as a larger application than has usually been given per tree in the past. It is extremely doubtful whether it would be advisable to have much more nitrogen available to a citrus tree during a season. In addition the use of poultry manure would provide for a large amount of readily decayable organic matter to be returned to the soil. "It has been the experience of citrus growers in the past that poultry manure has given very satisfactory results. Indeed, there are many growers who could use nothing else if they could get all they needed. The present high prices for poultry droppings are but another indication of this problem." PREPARING TO RESIST THE JAP MENACE State Divided Into Seven Zones for the Purpose. For the purpose of crystallizing public sentiment against the Japanese invasion of California and to raise funds to combat the Asiatic problem, State Controller John S. Chambers, chairman of the executive committee of the California Oriental Exclusion League, announced today that he had divided the State into seven districts. In each of these districts county organizations will be formed, and a director or supervisor will be placed at the head of each district. The county organizations will report to the district heads, says Chambers, and the district heads will report to the main organization with headquarters in Sacramento. The districts and the counties comprising them follow: Northern district: Tehama, Shasta, Trinity, Lassen, Modoc and Siskiyou counties. North Coast: Solano, Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino, Humbolt and Del Norte. Sacramento district: San Joaquin, Yolo, Colusa, Glenn, Butte, Plumas, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Alpine and Tuolumne. Bay district: San Francisco, San Mateo, Alameda, Marin and Contra Costa. Middle Coast: Santa Clara, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Luis Obispo. San Joaquin district: Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, Mariposa, Mono and Inyo. Soothern California: Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura, San Bernardino, Imperial, Orange and Santa Barbara. ADVERTISING BEANS Between $25,000 and $30,000 is to be spent this year by the California Lima Bean Growers' Association in an advertising campaign, designed to "It has been the experience of citrus growers in the past that poultry manure has given very satisfactory results. Indeed, there are many growers who could use nothing else if they could get all they needed. The present high prices for poultry droppings are but another indication of the desirability of this substance as a fertilizer for citrus trees. Poultry droppings are more concentrated and therefore run higher in nitrogen than other manures for the reason that both liquid and solid excreta are voided together, the solid portion tending to absorb and conserve the liquid portion, thus preventing loss. In addition, on account of the finely ground character of poultry manure it works easily into the soil and becomes available to the trees much more rapidly than other manures. "Figuring on this basis it can readily be seen that a hen per tree should serve to keep up the fertility of our orchards, were all the droppings recovered and applied to the orchards. A ten acre unit would then consist of 1000 hens, which should require at most no more than a half-acre for pens. Under proper management a profit of a dollar per hen should be received and in addition the orchardist would receive the manure free of cost. "Many orchardists would undoubtedly keep the hens for the manure alone if no profit whatever were realized on the business, so valuable do they consider poultry manure as a fertilizer for citrus trees. On tracts Soother California: Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura, San Bernardino, Imperial, Orange and Santa Barbara. ADVERTISING BEANS Between $25,000 and $30,000 is to be spent this year by the California Lima Bean Growers' Association in an advertising campaign, designed to popularize large and baby lima beans as articles of diet, according to W.C. Jerome, county auditor and prominent local bean grower. On November 29 there will appear in the Saturday Evening Post a page advertisement, containing two attractive "cuts," showing a dish of lima bean croquettes, and California lima bean salad. The display line in the advertisement, a proof of which has been received by Jerome, reads, "New Bean Dishes that Save Meat—Your Largest Food Expense." The advertisement will feature California Seaside Lima beans, large limas and baby limas. The Seaside brand is that which the Lima Bean Growers' Association is putting before the public. As an ingication of the value and far-reaching effects of a big advertising campaign, Jerome today stated that the advertising agency which is preparing the "copy" required an assurance from the association that ample stocks, to supply the demand that would result from the campaign, would be available throughout the United States. While, because of the comparatively light bean crop in California this season, no advertising was needed to WOMEN There are approx women voters in the cording to statistical National American Association. Of the 29 of the states of the right to vote dent. Seventeen counties have now granted suffrage. They are Australia, Finland, Denmark, Russia, Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Poland, Sweden, Ireland, and very few but the first four been brought about break of the war. Suffrage has passed France since the French women say enfranchisement can layed. Italian women their first votes in hoped, all women in will have equal power. ANAHEIM GAZETTE THIS IS GREAT YEAR FOR WALNUT GROWERS Yield in California Much Heavier than Pre-Harvest Estimate. This is a great year for walnut growers of Orange county as well as for growers of every walnut section in the state. Reports show the crop bigger than at first estimated. "All records in the marketing of walnuts were broken here Monday by the California Walnut Growers' Association with the shipment of more than 2,000,000 pounds which brought in $618,000 for the day's business," said C. Thorpe, general manager of the California Walnut Growers' Association. "This money was distributed to the growers through their thirty co-operative packing associations, within two hours after it was deposited in local banks." "The growers are highly elated over the new crop estimate which places this season's walnut production at 50,000,000 pounds, an advance of 4,000,000 pounds over an estimate which was made early in the season. The total production is valued at $15,000,000, which is about $3,500,000 more than the 1918 crop sold for. The production in excess of the first estimate made this year is being rapidly absorbed by the market, and at prices which are a half-cent in advance of the season's opening prices on all grades." "Our heavy shipments of the past two weeks are a direct result of the late September rains which caused husks to open and started the nuts to falling at a rapid rate. When the harvest began the growers caught the WICKERSHEIM'B SALES During the past thirty days the Wickersheim Implement Company of Fullerton, has delivered the following cars: New Ford tourings with electric starters to C. R. Tayles, Fullerton Union High School, Ramon Gomez and Victor Hualde, new Ford tourings to M. H. Ryan, O. L. Sexton, F. M. Aanons and A. B. David; new Ford 1-ton trucks to Campbell Camming Company of Buena Park and R. Miyakawa, new Ford delivery to Ramon H. Hernandez; new speedsters to F. F. Finch and J. L. Armstrong; used Ford tourings to C. W. Bledsoe, Wm. E. Davis, Dick Heitshusen, E. Hostetler, D. M. McAleese, Lewis McPherson, P. V. Wilber, C. S. West, G. C. Ruehle, G. T. Budke, used Ford truck to P. M. Sparks, Chevrolet touring to Chester Glivin, Dodge roadster to Elmer C. Houston, National roadster to Harold Smith, Chalmers touring o Charles Kimmons, Moon touring to Chas. Prather, Briscoe touring to F. L. Armstrong, Oakland touring to Willard Berry, Flanders touring to Leonard Moudy and an Oldsmobile touring to Felix Yriarte. MUCH NOISE, NO ACTION About two months ago, when the President suddenly discovered that the high cost of living is a problem in America, and entered upon the study of that subject as hysterically as he has entered upon others, the announcement was made that Mr. Wilson "will demand prison terms for profiteers in food." Representative McLaughlin of Nebraska, took occasion to commend MEXICAN SHOOTING SCRAPE Suffering from a slight bullet wound in his right side, Ferezamo Chaires was taken to the Santa Ana hospital Wednesday, and Jose Foscano was being sought by officers on a charge of having done the shooting. Both men are employees at the Santa Ana Sugar Company's factory, south of Santa Ana. The shooting is said to have been the outcome of a quarrel. After coming off the day shift at the factory, shortly after 7 o'clock Friday, Foscano is said to have lain in wait a short distance outside the factory gate. As Chaires, who had also just come off shift, approached, Foscano opened fire with a revolver, it is stated. According to County Motor Policeman Roy Ballard, who accompanied by Charles C. Corrillo, interpreter at the court house, made an investigation. Foscano fired five shots, at Chaires only one of which took effect. Foscano is said to have fired two shots and then to have hesitated before firing the other three. It was one of the latter shots which took effect, Ballard states. Immediately after the shooting Foscano fled into the darkness. Chaires hundred and seventy-one thousand, or 83%, will be of the two-ton size and less, and their capacity will be about 59½% of the total truck capacity to be built. Trucks from two to four tons capacity will constitute 11% of the number, and 21% of the total capacity. Trucks of five tons will constitute 5% of the number built, and 16% of the total capacity. Trucks to carry more than 5 tons will constitute 1% of the number built, and include only 3% of the total capacity. Mr. Morton goes on to show that it is the trucks in excess of five tons capacity, and also the overloading of five-ton trucks that do the most damage to concrete pavements, and he brings out a strong argument for stringent regulation of loading. Much technical information is presented in the article, which is worthy of careful consideration by county officials throughout the State. FARMING PRESERVED IN PICTURES Some crank on literary speculation once said that if every copy of the Bible and every copy of Shakespeare in existence were destroyed, it would be possible the next day to reproduce them, letter perfect, from the memory of men and women. Probably he would depend almost wholly on the "mental storage" of ministers and actors. Following out the analogy, it is hardly too much to say that if all knowledge of agriculture were blotted out of the minds of men tomorrow, it would be possible to reconstruct good agriculture from the pictures in the possession of the United States Department of Agriculture. The Section of Illustrations turned out, during the last fiscal year, 181,000 pieces of photography. The subjects ranged from organisms so small that they had to be photographed through a high-power microscope to fumigation tanks large enough to admit a whole train of freight cars at once, from a fever tick fastened to the hide of a cow to magnificent stretches of forest and pasture caught from the tops of high About two months ago, when the President suddenly discovered that the high cost of living is a problem in America, and entered upon the study of that subject as hysterically as he has entered upon others, the announcement was made that Mr. Wilson "will demand prison terms for profiteers in food." Representative McLaughlin of Nebraska, took occasion to commend the President's determination, but expressed regret that it had taken him so long to discover the need for action, especially since there were laws upon the statute books giving him power to prosecute offenders. Mr. McLaughlin also called to the President's attention certain agreements disclosed by Congressional hearings under which the by Charles C. Corrillo, interpreter at the court house, made an inquestigation. Foscano fired five shots, at Chaires only one of which took effect. Foscano is said to have fired two shots and then to have hesitated before firing the other three. It was one of the latter shots which took effect, Ballard states. Immediately after the shooting Foscano fled into the darkness. Chaires was rushed to the hospital, where it was found his injury was not serious. WOMEN VOTERS There are approximately 100,000,000 women voters in the world today according to statistics compiled by the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Of these 15,000,000 1-29 of the states of this country have the right to vote for the next President. Seventeen countries of the world have now granted their women full suffrage. They are: New Zealand, Australia, Finland, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Russia, Great Britain, Austria, Canada, Czecho-Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Sweden, Germany, Holland, and very recently, Italy. In all but the first four this reform has been brought about since the outbreak of the war. A bill for equal suffrage has passed one house in France since the war ended and French women say that their complete enfranchisement cannot be long delayed. Italian women expect to cast their first votes in 1920 when, it is hoped, all women in the United States will have equal political rights with men. The Section of Illustrations turned out, during the last fiscal year, 181,000 pieces of photography. The subjects ranged from organisms so small that they had to be photographed through a high-power microscope to fumigation tanks large enough to admit a whole train of freight cars at once, from a fever tick fastened to the hide of a cow to magnificent stretches of forest and pasture caught from the tops of high mountains. And the Section of Illustrations has been at work for 21 years. It has not confined itself to photography, either. It works with the pencil and the crayon almost as much as with the camera. It is not doing all this work, let it be understood, on the far call of rebuilding agriculture if it should be destroyed, but for the purpose of instructing the public, day by day, in the art of better farming. All these pictures are used in educational work of some kind. They are printed in bulletins, on leaflets, in newspapers; are shown directly to farmers and farmers' wives by county agents, home-demonstration agents, and others; are displayed at fairs and other expositions—in one way or another are brought to the attention of the people the country over who are interested in growing more and better food for the consumers of the country and in living more comfortably and getting more out of life for themselves while they are doing it. A lot of people would like to know if, when the British lion and the American lamb have lain down together in the millennial dawn, the lamb will be on the inside or the outside after the slumber party is over. Family Washing SAVE your wife the drudgery of the washtub by sending us your family washing. It costs you very little when compared to the pleasure it will bring to your wife—put the burden on us. Send us your shirts and collars Immaculate linen is the mark of a gentleman. You get the best work here. Patronize a home concern. Anaheim Laundry Company Phone 18 WE KNOW MEATS “Every man to his own business” is a well-known saying—and we believe that this applies to us. Our business is buying meats as well as selling meats—upon the buying depends the success of the business. That’s why we buy only the best meats—and we know the best meats. Any piece of meat that you buy in this shop has been selected by us because we know that it is a good piece of meat, meat that you can eat with satisfaction. Upon this basis we ask your patronage. Anaheim Cash Market 109-11 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim J. E. STROUP, Proprietor WE KNOW MEATS —“Every man to his own business” is a well-known saying—and we believe that this applies to us. —Our business is buying meats as well as selling meats—upon the buying depends the success of the business. —That’s why we buy only the best meats—and we know the best meats. Any piece of meat that you buy in this shop has been selected by us because we know that it is a good piece of meat, meat that you can eat with satisfaction. —Upon this basis we ask your patronage. Anaheim Cash Market 109-11 N. Los Angeles St., Anaheim J. E. STROUP, Proprietor Building is Brisk Since the government lifted the restrictions on material, and if you are among the many who contemplate putting up a new home or repairing an old one, let us make an estimate for you. We handle everything you will need, and you will find our prices right. Griffith Lumber Company South Los Angeles St. H. M. ADAMS, Mgr. Good Place to Buy— G-O-O-D L-U-M-B-E-R C. GANAHL LUMBER COMPANY Anaheim: Cal ANAHEIM FEED and FUEL CO. DEALERS IN Wood, Coal, Hay, Grain Seeds and Flour PUBLIC WEIGHING SCALES Phones: Pacific 317, Home 294 R. W. McClellan, W. D. Grafton, Props. CITY CASH MARKET 117 W. Center St. “Quality, Price and Service” Our Motto CITY CASH MARKET 117 W. Center St. "Quality, Price and Service" Our Motto We handle nothing but the choicest of meats. We deliver. Phone your orders early. Pacific 20 ED. W. SCHNEIDER Proprietor War Department had been withholding supplies from the market for the purpose of preventing a slump in prices. Notwithstanding the demand of the President for prison terms, the laws on the statute books, the appropriations for the prosecution of criminals, and the large force of employees in the Department of Justice, there seems to have been no imprisonment of profiteers as yet. Senator Phelan, of California, told Senator Williams, of Mississippi, after that administration spokesman had roasted the Irish, that the difference between Ireland and Mississippi was that the former was a revolutionist for liberty while the latter rebelled for slavery. Of course, if a Republican had said that it would have been "waving the bloody shirt." 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