anaheim-gazette 1920-01-01

PARENT NAVEL TREES DYING OF OLD AGE Riverside's Two Patriarchs Are Slowly Fading Away. A cloak of sadness has fallen over the city of Riverside and the sorrow of impending death enwraps the hearts of oldest residents. For the city's two most noted patriarchs, the sole authentic fathers of the entire navel orange industry of California, are struggling for their lives against the ravages of old age. Opinion regarding their recovery seems divided, but a close friend who has cared for and watched over them for years, declared he had lost all hope and that the end was only a matter of a few weeks or months. The late President Roosevelt installed one of the pioneers in his home in 1902 with impressive ceremony and congratulated him as an enemy of race suicide, and the first of one of the most valuable ancestries in the world. The patriarchs are the two Washington navel trees brought from Brazil in 1874 by the Department of Agriculture, and from them, by process of budding into seedling stock, have sprung all of the navel orange trees of California. One of them stands in the court of the Mission Inn, where President Roosevelt replanted it in 1902, and Frank A. Miller, the proprietor, believes it will soon die, in spite of all that can be done. The other tree stands at the head of Magnolia avenue, and has been cared for by the city. Its plight is the same and friends fear both will soon February becomes tinged in March with clouds of fragrant yellow catkins. This is the bonanza of the thrifty desert bees; now or never they must restock those rows of empty golden honey-pots in the rocky cranny of the hillside, and they go to the work with all the proverbial ardor, plus the stimulus of needful haste. A certain camp deserves description as illustrating the possibilities of growth of the mesquit. Other wayfarers, probably Indians or Mexicans, had used the place before me, and had spent no little labor on making it convenient. From the outside it was a dome-shaped, isolated clump, a hundred yards or so in circumference and perhaps fifteen feet in height. A sort of tunnel had been cut leading to the center, which, when reached, revealed the fact that the whole clump was one enormous tree. The short butt, a yard or so in diameter, broke into several big recumbent branches, which went rambling about on hands and knees, all crooks and elbows, and threw out a young forest of twigs and branches cantankerously thorny. Near the main stem there was ample space and headroom for camp quarters, and the friend who left his comfortable Pasadena bungalow to visit me there had no fault to find with the accommodations, though he had once in a while with the temperature. It was pleasant at odd hours to listen to the conversation of a family of Gambel quail that shared our mesquit with us, pater's loud clear call, or the quieter admonishment of Mrs. G., answered by absent-minded twitterings or headlong scamperings of the youngsters. At this camp Kaweah had to pronounced in the Japanese birth per cent of the total. There are 213 Japanese personal property inside of the incorporation their holdings are vans says the report. In Stockton, nine own personal property $224,945, and in Lowery owned by fifteen $8610, and alnd held at $2800. Controller Chambre that there were 107 these corporations in March 1, 1919, when of Equalization began. These companies have of approximately $70 per cent of them are panies. Besides these corps Japanese names and bers said there are no can names and dummies are really controlled to ferret them out impossible task, he said. Since March 1, close new Japanese landings have been formed. VAST TRACT OF LAND Drainage Project Nearest in Missouri Expects 500,000 Acre One of the most exotic and drainage pro- One of them stands in the court of the Mission Inn, where President Roosevelt replanted it in 1902, and Frank A. Miller, the proprietor, believes it will soon die, in spite of all that can be done. The other tree stands at the head of Magnolia avenue, and has been cared for by the city. Its plight is the same and friends fear both will soon have to be removed. Mr. Miller and city officials are considering plans for erecting bronze tablets to mark the spot where the historic progenitors now stand. There are others, however, who disagree with his opinion and believe the trees can be rejuvenated. Interstitial glands have not yet been resorted to, but in arching and various other expedients have, without apparent success. The trees bore fruit last year and still have a few leaves, but it is not thought they will yield this year. THE MESQUIT TREE IN THE DESERT The larger mesquit is the one great benefaction of Nature to the desert dweller. Were it only in the matter of shade, what songs should be raised to it by man, bird and beast; and indeed are raised by sparrow, wren, linet, and, to the best of his ability, by that arch black sprite, Phainopepla, who thinks the topmost spray of a mesquit the cap of the universe. Reptile and insect revel in it too, for, as I write these pages under the shade of a mesquit, I am buzzed and bitten by gnats and flies to all degrees, cobwebbed by spiders, explored by serious beetles, and adopted by caterpillars as a happy idea; while nimble lizards scamper about sniping my tormenters. Every mesquit is a green caravanseral, and that is patronized to the full. These islands of shade are naturally the preferred spots for camping places by desert travelers, and that they have been so from old may be known by the presence near them of unusual quantities of the broken pottery that everywhere amazes one by tokens of the large population that the dena bungalow to visit me there had no fault to find with the accommodations, though he had once in a while with the temperature. It was pleasant at odd hours to listen to the conversation of a family of Gambel quail that shared our mesquit with us, pater's loud clear call, or the quieter admonishment of Mrs. G., answered by absent-minded twitterings or headlong scamperings of the youngsters. At this camp Kaweah had to be picked outside, but in a similar mesquit clump, that furnished me quarters for a week a few miles farther on my way, a stable had been installed by some predecessor with manger and room for two or three horses. There was ample space here also for an average family's camp requirements. The mesquit yields excellent food for both man and beast. One authority says that the bean, of which husk and all are used, contains over fifty per cent of practicable food eelments. The Indians nowadays do not call on it to the extent they did formerly when the meal ground from the beans of this plant was the staple of their diet, though they still use it freely; but horses, and the omnivorous burros and the desert cattle rejoice at sight of a bean-hung mesquit. Many times, during expeditions that took us far out of range of ordinary fodder, the situation has been saved for Kaweah by our finding a mesquit or two, the twigs pendant with plump clusters and the ground whitened with the fallen fruit—J. Smeaton Chase. HOUSEWIVES LEAGUES FORM IN CALIFORNIA Organizations of bodies known as Housewives Leagues are being formed in California cities for the purpose of investigating conditions attending the production and distribution of food with the purpose of lowering prices of food products. Investigations are made as to cost of manufacture and distribution and other phases of the problem and recommendations for certain lines of procedure are made to the consumer. Large numbers of women are being enlisted in the undertaking. In addressing the Housewives organizations of bodies known as Housewives Leagues are being formed in California cities for the purpose of investigating conditions attending the production and distribution of food with the purpose of lowering prices of food products. Investigations are made as to cost of manufacture and distribution and other phases of the problem and recommendations for certain lines of procedure are made to the consumer. Large numbers of women are being enlisted in the undertaking. In addressing the Housewives organizations of bodies known as Housewives Leagues are being formed in California cities for the purpose of investigating conditions attending the production and distribution of food with the purpose of lowering prices of food products. Investigations are made as to cost of manufacture and distribution and other phases of the problem and recommendations for certain lines of procedure are made to the consumer. Large numbers of women are being enlisted in the undertaking. In addressing the Housewives organizations of bodies known as Housewives Leagues are being formed in California cities for the purpose of investigating conditions attending the production and distribution of food with the purpose of lowering prices of food products. Investigations are made as to cost of manufacture and distribution and other phases of the problem and recommendations for certain lines of procedure are made to the consumer. Large numbers of women are being enlisted in the undertaking. In addressing the Housewives organizations of bodies known as Housewives Leagues are being formed in California cities for the purpose of investigating conditions attending the production and distribution of food with the purpose of lowering prices of food products. Investigations are made as to cost of manufacture and distribution and other phases of the problem and recommendations for certain lines of procedure are made to the consumer. Large numbers of women are being enlisted in the undertaking. In addressing the Housewives organizations of bodies known as Housewives Leagues are being formed in California cities for the purpose of investigating conditions attending the production and distribution of food with the purpose of lowering prices of food products. Investigations are made as to cost of manufacture and distribution and other phases of the problem and recommendations for certain lines of procedure are made to the consumer. Large numbers of women are being enlisted in the undertaking. In addressing the Housewives organizations of bodies known as Housewives Leagues are being formed in California cities for the purpose of investigating conditions attending the production and distribution of food with the purpose of lowering prices of food products. Investigations are made as to cost of manufacture and distribution and other phases of the problem and recommendations for certain lines of procedure are made to the consumer. Large numbers of women are being enlisted in the undertaking. In addressing the Housewives organizations of bodies known as Housewives Leagues are being formed in California cities for the purpose of investigating conditions attending the production and distribution of food with the purpose of lowering prices of food products. Investigations are made as to cost of manufacture and distribution and other phases of the problem and recommendations for certain lines of procedure are made to the consumer. Large numbers of women are being enlisted in the undertaking. In addressing the Housewives organizations of bodies known as Housewives Leagues are being formed in California cities for the purpose of investigating conditions attending the production and distribution of food with the purpose of lowering prices of food products. Investigations are made as to cost of manufacture and distribution and other phases of the problem and recommendations for certain lines of procedure are made to the consumer. Large numbers of women are being enlisted in the undertaking. In addressing the Housewives organizations of bodies known as Housewives Leagues are being formed in California cities for the purpose of investigating conditions attending the production and distribution of food with the purpose of lowering prices of food products. Investigations are made as to cost of manufacture and distribution and other phases of the problem and recommendations for certain lines of procedure are made to the consumer. Large numbers of women are being enlisted in the undertaking. In addressing the Housewives organizations of bodies known as Housewives Leagues are being formed in California cities for the purpose of investigating conditions attending the production and distribution of food with the purpose of lowering prices of food products. Investigations are made as to costof manufactureanddistributionandotherphasesoftheproblemandrecommendationsforcertainlinesofprocedurearemadetotheconsumer.Largenumbersofwomenarebeingenlistedintheundertaking.InaddressingtheHousewives organizationsofbodiesknownasHousewivesLeaguesarebeingformedinCaliforniacitiesforyourexpenditureofforditchesandcanalslengthof650miles.Inditchis175feetwideInOctoberlastbutmainditchwasincomeAsaresultofthevalues doubledandtheneersassertthatatacountshasbeastvastlyditchesItisalcountermers.offourandfiveofawheatcropfolloworsoybeancropinthelandgoingintofall.Wheatandthesamefarmannturalcombination.PUREWHEATFLOUGBOUGHGovernmentisRetailiPackagesatModernTheUnitedStatesGannounced recentlythepurewheatflournowsmallpackages"atminhundredsofretailchantssellingitwould These islands of shade are naturally the preferred spots for camping places by desert travelers, and that they have been so from old may be known by the presence near them of unusual quantities of the broken pottery that everywhere amazes one by tokens of the large population that the desert once supported. In places, mesquit thickets may still be found that extend for miles. The mesquit is also evidence of water, though not necessarily of water near the surface, as in the case of the palm. Far down below the burning surface sands the great cable-like roots of the mesquit go searching for the beds of water-bearing gravel, and the plant that shows only a five-foot tangle of thorny scrub aboveground may have roots running to ten times that depth. As the sand is constantly heaped higher about the mesquit by the wind, the plant struggles to keep its head above the drift, and in places, as at Seven Palms, mile-long dunes have formed that show a mere fuzz of twigs aboveground, while your feet may be tripped by the great cylindrical roots, as thick as your leg, and almost as hard and rigid as iron, from which the sand has been blown away. In examining a small one of these roots with a thickness o fabout two inches, and looking like a smooth brown rope stretched taut, I noted that in a distance of twenty feet it showed no variation of diameter. Besides its boons of game, fuel, shade, and possibly water, the mesquit yields food for man and beast and insect. The vivid young green of late California cities for the purpose of investigating conditions attending the production and distribution of food with the purpose of lowering prices of food products. Investigations are made as to cost of manufacture and distribution and other phases of the problem and recommendations for certain lines of procedure are made to the consumer. Large numbers of women are being enlisted in the undertaking. In addressing the Housewives League of San Francisco recently Mrs. Annette A. Adams, United States Attorney, stated that large quantities of bread, some of which is suitable for human consumption, is regularly sent out of the city is hog food. The United States Attorney stated that while this bread is not strictly fresh and much of it is in the form of misshapen loaves, the public should be given an opportunity to purchase it before it is disposed of for animal food. She said that many of the ill-shapen loaves are cut in two with a shovel, evidently with the idea of making them less attractive to possible purchasers. SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY JAP PROBLEM ACUTE Oriental Birth Rate Alarming, and Property Acquired Astounding. Japanese agricultural landholdings in San Joaquin county are valued at $315,805, and personal property owned by them exceeds $500,000 in value according to a report received by State Controller John S. Chambers, from John W. Moore, assessor of San Joaquin county. Moore reports that the Japanese population is increasing very rapidly and that their activity has been very ANAHEIM GAZETTE IN THE OIL FIELD (From Brea Progress) Christmas week proved to be one of the biggest weeks of the entire year with the oil operators of Southern California. Ten new wells were located, drilling started on five new wells, and three producers were brought in with an aggregate production of 2500 barrels. The record closes a great year for the operators, a year that has been marked with many great achievements in the development history of the southern oil field. The Amalgamated Oil Company has cut down its development work to two wells in the Richfield district. The Potter well is now drilling in a hard sand at 2975 feet, with no showings of oil yet. Breene No. 1 is held up temporarily with a fishing job at 1775 feet. A twist-off left some drill pipe in the hole. At 3450 feet the Clark Oil Company ran into a nice-looking shale at Crowther No. 1. The present showing is the most encouraging since the well started drilling. An oil sand is now looked for at most any moment. A third cementing has failed to shut off the water in the Fullerton Oil Company's Travis well at Yorba Linda. A pumping test has been made to test out the last cementing, and shows quite a quantity of water coming. The well is the first one completed since the Commonwealth Petroleum Company purchased the Columbia oil-producing property, and should make the Commonwealth feel pleased with the acquisition. No. 31 is drilling at 2300 feet, No. 33 is rigging up to start drilling, and No. 34 is a new location. The Union Oil Company of California, with twelve strings of tools running and wells drilling on eleven different properties, is the leader of the work in the Richfield-Placentia district. On the Chapman property No. 2 is held up with a rather complicated fishing job at 1177 feet. No. 3 is now ten feet deeper, 3077, than the gusher, and is due to arrive at any time now. An effort will be made to drill as far as possible in the sand before the well comes in. On account of the strong showing of oil and the heavy gas pressure, the well may have to discontinue drilling at any time. Chapman No. is drilling at 1234 feet. No. 5 is drilling at 2925 and is showing some sand. No. 6 is rotating at 750 feet. Rigs are up for Chapman Nos. 7 and 8. On the Coyle property boilers have been set up for No. 1 and the rig lumber is on the ground for No. 2. The Coyle & Bogue shows almost 2000 feet of hole. Dickson No. 1 is still being held up with a fishing job after 2755 feet of hole had been mde. Almost 100 feet of 6-inch pipe was lost in the hole. Esther Newell No. 1 is rigging up and J. W. Newell is drilling in the conglomerate at 1350 feet. Shepard No. 1 is making hole at 700 feet. Thompson-Goodwin No. 1 shows some good progress with 2200 feet field. VAST TRACT OF LAND RECLAIMED Drainage Project Nearing Completion in Missouri Expected to Restore 500,000 Acres. One of the most extensive reclamation and drainage projects ever under VAST TRACT OF LAND RECLAIMED Drainage Project Nearing Completion in Missouri Expected to Restore 500,000 Acres. One of the most extensive reclamation and drainage projects ever undertaken in the United States is now nearing completion in southeast Missouri. By February of next year it is expected that 500,000 acres in that section will have been lifted out of the swamps caused by the sinking of the bottom lands in the great earthquake of 1811 that changed the whole topography of southeast Missouri over night from hills and lakes to bayous and swamps. The Little River drainage district was organized in 1912 after agitation extending over nine years. It called for an expenditure of about $4,000,000 for ditches and canals, aggregating a length of 650 miles. In places the main ditch is 175 feet wide and 11 feet deep. In October last but five miles of the main ditch was incomplete. As a result of the draining, land values doubled and then tripled. Engineers assert that a total of 1,000,000 acres has been vastly benefitted by the ditches. It is a country of long summers, of four and five crops of alfalfa, of a wheat crop followed by a cowpea or soybean crop in the same summer, the land going into wheat again in the fall. Wheat and cotton grow on the same farm, an unusual agricultural combination. PURE WHEAT FLOUR BOUGHT AT RETAIL Government is Retailing it in Small Packages at Moderate Price. The United States Grain Corporation announced recently that government purewheat flour now is on sale in small packages "at moderate prices" in hundreds of retail grocery stores throughout the country and that merchants selling it would be provided on other No. 1. The present showing is the most encouraging since the well started drilling. An oil sand is now looked for at most any moment. A third cementing has failed to shut off the water in the Fullerton Oil Company's Travis well at Yorba Linda. A pumping test has been made to test out the last cementing, and shows quite a quantity of water coming into the well. As soon as the water can be shut off the capacity of the well for oil will be known. Travis No. 2 is grading for a rig site. The Fullerton Oil Company's Anaheim Union No. 1 is drilling in a sandy shale at 2100 feet. The General Petroleum's gusher, Thompson No. 1, is being held back by heaving sand that keeps coming into the well as fast as it can be removed. A few days ago hydraulic was resorted to, with little success. An attempt is now being made to get rid of the sand by circulating. At the time this well came in it looked good for 2000 barrels, but the sand came in and shut off the oil. Thompson No. 2 is drilling in shale and boulders at 1367. Yorba 3-1 is drilling on iron at 2980. The General Petroleum's Stern well is making good progress, close to 1600 feet of hole having been drilled. The Harrington-Dumas Oil Company, the latest entrant to the Placentia district, commenced building a rig on property adjoining and leased from the Heffern Oil Company. Drilling will start on this new well just as soon as the preparations can be completed. The Petroleum Development Company (Santa Fe) is making preparations to bring in its first well in the Richfield district. Bradford Bros. No. 1 is the well. The completion depth is given at 3470 feet, and some 2500 feet of oil is standing in the hole. The well is not expected to flow, but will make a nice pumping well of from 200 to 300 barrels. The Petroleum Development Company's Bradford Community well is standing cemented at rig lumber is on the ground for No. 2. The Coyle & Bogue shows almost 2000 feet of hole. Dickson No. 1 is still being held up with a fishing job after 2755 feet of hole had been mde. Almost 100 feet of 6-inch pipe was lost in the hole. Esther Newell No. 1 is rigging up and J. W. Newell is drilling in the conglomerate at 1350 feet. Shepard No. 1 is making hole at 700 feet. Thompson-Goodwin No. 1 shows some good progress, with 2200 feet drilled. The Union's Towell No. 1 is 3100 feet deep and has made no encouraging oil showing as yet. Yorba No. 1 is drilling at 2000 feet in shale and boulders. PUBLIC Auction Of Land Oil has been discovered in Imperial county in a well drilled near Coyote Wells. Several tracts of vacant school land in the vicinity of Coyote Wells and in other parts of Imperial county will be offered for sale at public auction by W. S. Kingsbury, State Surveyor General, on January 13th, 1920, at 10:00 o'clock a.m. at the county courthouse in El Centro. A number of the school sections to be offered for sale on that date lie along the proposed route of the All-American canal in Imperial county. There is a total of 35,732 acres of vacant school lands in said county. Auction sales of vacant school lands in the oil producing county of San Luis Obispo and the prospective oil bearing county of Monterey will be held on January 16th and January 19th, 1920, respectively. The 6,825 acres of vacant school land in San Luis Obispo county will be offered for sale at auction at the courthouse in the city of San Luis Obispo on January 16th at 10:00 a.m., and the 8,489 acres of school land in Monterey county will be offered for sale at the courthouse in the city of Salinas on January 19th at 10:00 a.m. Terms of sale are ten per cent cash, the balance bearing six per cent interest. The State Surveyor General reserves the right to reject any and all bids. For a list of vacant school lands and information relative thereto, or the Government is Retailing it in Small Packages at Moderate Price. The United States Grain Corporation announced recently that government purewheat flour now is on sale in small packages "at moderate prices" in hundreds of retail grocery stores throughout the country and that merchants selling it would be provided on application, with posters advertising the fact. In a supplemental statement, Watson S. Moore, second vice-president of the corporation, informed the consumers the flour was in no sense a war or substitute article, but was derived from pure wheat. "The regular flour trade," said Mr. Moore, "should understand this campaign is in no sense designed to discredit their regular business or the brands they ordinarily handle. They recognize, I am sure, that this on the part of the government to reduce the high cost of living." Mr. Moore added that rumors of a flour shortage are utterly without foundation and that, in fact, flour stocks are approximately 50 per cent larger than last year. It turns out that the effort to prevent the meeting of that "Committee of Forty-Eight" at St. Louis to launch "a new party" was self-arranged persecution provided for advertising purposes. There was not even an effort to raise the point that it was the open season for squirrels under the Missouri game laws. President Wilson is still willing to compromise if the Senate will agree to everything he proposes. At Olinda the Commnwealth Petroleum Company has just brought in the largest well of the year for the Olinda field. No. 32, drilled to 3200 feet, came in a flowing well and is making 1500 barrels of 23-gravity oil. This same well was given a test at 2300 feet a couple of months ago and made a very poor showing. Nine hundred feet more of hole made a 1500-barrel well and reveals the possibilities of deep drilling in the old Olinda pany (Santa Fe) is making preparations to bring in its first well in the Richfield district. Bradford Bros. No. 1 is the well. The completion depth is given at 3470 feet, and some 2500 feet of oil is standing in the hole. The well is not expected to flow, but will make a nice pumping well of from 200 to 300 barrels. The Petroleum Development Company's Bradford Community well is standing cemented at 3500 feet. Bradford 1 and 2 are now drilling. The showing of oil and gas struck at 2375 feet his continued to the present depth of 2475 feet in the Santa Ana Canyon's Crowther well. The indications for the extension o f the field across the river a couple of miles southeast of the Richfield-Placentia district seems now to be quite probable by the showing the Santa Ana Company's well is making. Bottom water continues to give the Standard Oil Company some trouble on the Kraemer No. 1 tract at Yorba Linda. Well No. 5, a late producer, was cemented again a second time to shut off the water. Kraemer 1-4 is standing cemented at 2131 feet. No. 6 is drilling at 2255 feet. One of the most striking examples of what may be accomplished in food production is that of the Potomac Park home gardens, located in the District of Columbia almost within the shadow of the Washington Monument. This year there were 300 gardens, supervised by the United States Department of Agriculture, each 40 feet by 100 feet in size, and occupying in all approximately 35 acres. According to reports recently received from the gardeners, and based on actual records, these gardens gave an average return of $84 a garden, or over $25,000 for the 300 gardens. This means that no less than 300 families living in the District of Columbia not only have supplied tables with fresh vegetables throughout the summer, but now have on hand a considerable supply of food for winter use. In addition, approximately 1,200 people have enjoyed outdoor exercise and healthful recreation. This is but one instance where the city home garden has resulted both in the production of large quantities of food and in providing the people with Overcoats, Suits AND Mackinaws Styles for Midwinter at Prices That are Attractive Sweaters in all colors both button and pull over styles JACKSON'S MEN'S WEAR SHOP. YOUR MONEY'S WORTH ALWAYS ANAHEIM Sixty years ago last August, Col. Edwin L. Drake, the pioneer of the petroleum industry of the United States made his discovery in the famous Oil Creek District of Northwestern Pennsylvania, and from that beginning on down through the years to the present day the demand for the products of the oil well has been on the increase, until today it has become the agency for motive power on land and sea the world over. This demand has become greater of late owing to the high cost of mining coal and the difficulty of managing labor. SIXTY years ago last August, Col. Edwin L. Drake, the pioneer of the petroleum industry of the United States made his discovery in the famous Oil Creek District of Northwestern Pennsylvania, and from that beginning on down through the years to the present day the demand for the products of the oil well has been on the increase, until today it has become the agency for motive power on land and sea the world over. This demand has become greater of late owing to the high cost of mining coal and the difficulty of managing labor. There is no fuel known to mankind that can be landed at the boilers of industry with so little manual labor as oil. The increasing demand justifies the assertion that this product will never be cheaper. Invest in whatever there is the greatest demand for and you seldom go wrong. Persons should first study the safety of the kind of property they wish to invest in, to see if the section in which their money is to be placed is a good locality for the enterprise; also to see if other reliable concerns are located in that immediate center. The "PLACENTIA-RICHFIELD CENTRAL" has good neighbors among whom are the biggest in the United States. There are the Standard, the Union, the General Petroleum, the Amalgamated, the Petroleum Midway and others, all out in the same Placentia-Richfield district, as we are. Do you want to buy for 75c per share before a well is put down in a proven field or pay many times that price after oil is struck? We have the balance left from 50,000 SHARES OF THE "PLACENTIA-RICHFIELD CENTRAL," a California Corporation, which we are offering at 75c; par value $1.00. Phone 63351. Call or write McFadden, Collins & Johnson 1000-1 Hibernian Bldg. Los Angeles, Calif. Also for sale by Tobin & Durkee, Anaheim. The Gazette $1.50 Per Year The Best Local Paper Subscribe Now outdoor life exercise. The need for home gardens will be just as great in 1920 as during the past season. Now is the time to perfect organizations gardens next year. BEEKEEPERS GO TO SCHOOL The beekeepers of several states which boast of large honey production are going back to school. Under the direction of representatives of the United States Department of Agriculture short courses for commercial beekeepers are now being conducted in Idaho, Washington, California, and Texas. During the first two months of the new year similar instruction will be given in Ohio, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, and New York. There is particular need this season that owners of apiaries have all possible assistance because the shortage of sugar promises to make it difficult to carry the swarms through the winter. Colonel Bryan reminds us that we now have sixteen to one. Knew we were in an awful fix, but had not before suspected the real cause of the trouble.