anaheim-gazette 1920-10-14

FARM BUREAU DAY Governor Stephens Will Deliver The Principal Address at Southern California Fair. Farm Bureau Day at the Southern California Fair at Riverside this year will be Monday, October 18. Through the courtesy of the Fair Association, guest tickets have been sent to all the Farm Bureau Directors of Southern California with the exception of Riverside County. These visitors are to be the luncheon guests of the Riverside County Farm Bureau. Each Farm Center will bring extra lunch to provide for the guests, so every family is asked to bring enough food to feed one or two extra. Luncheon will be at 11:30. Governor Stephens is going to be the guest of honor and principal speaker at this farmers' gathering. His one object in coming to Riverside is to address the farmers, and every farmer in Riverside County should avail himself of this opportunity of meeting our Chief State Executive. Dates previously made for the Governor have had to be changed, so he is going to some little trouble to be in Riverside on that day. Samuel Shortridge will also be present and will make a brief talk. This is a real opportunity for the farmers, not only of Riverside, but of all Southern California. While the Directors of the Centers throughout Southern California are coming as special guests, all the farmers are invited to be present and hear the speakers and take part in all the features of Farm Bureau Day. Sherman Institute Band will furnish music during the lunch hour. being put on feed. In a great number of cases the feed charges ran from 85 to 90 per cent of the operating expenses. The cost of man labor and horse labor constituted from 7 to 8 per cent. The wide variation in the factors affecting cost was reflected in equally of the finished cattle. During both of the years of the study the cost of the cattle covered in the surveys ranged from about $8 to $22 per hundred when fattened, the average for 1918-19 being $14.91, and for 1919-20, $13.83. The droves covered by the cost-accounting method showed a much narrower range, from $10 to $18, with an average of $13.39. In the final computation of net cost, allowance was made for corn and manure, two by-products of the feeding business which are credited to the steer. Under the conditions that prevailed where this study was made, these credits covered on the average slightly more than all expenses of fattening, other than feed. Hogs can not be expected to make such a good showing, however. If ground corn is fed to the steers, or if the ration is one in which corn does not have a major place. The financial return varied widely, ranging from $50 profit or more per head, reported for 40 head in 1918-19, to $50 or more per head/loss, reported for 155 head in 1918-19, and for over 200 head in 1919-20. As has been stated above, on the average there was a loss incurred in handling cattle each year, reaching $14.57 per head as the average loss of the 795 cattle on the detail route in 1919-20. However, a number of farmess carried their cattle through with profit. POISON SIRUPS EFFECTIVE REPORTS COST OF PRODUCING CORN-FED NESBRASKA CATTLE Inquiry Conducted by Department of Agriculture and State Agents. According to cost of production investigations conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the University of Nebraska, in parts of Nebraska during the past two years the average cost of cornfed cattle laid down at market was $14.91 per hundredweight for 2,293 head fed in the winter of 1918-19, $13.83 for 3,041 cattle in a survey study during the winter of 1919-20, an average of $13.39 for an additional 795 cattle upon which detailed cost figures were secured during the same winter. The costs upon some droves were found to vary widely from those average figures, with the major portion going to market the first winter (1918-19) carrying an expense bill of from $13 to $18 a hundredweight, while in 1919-20 the costs of most of the cattle were between $11 and $17. The facts thus far brought out would indicate that during the past two years, in the district covered by the survey, cattle feeding was a precarious venture, more likely to be unprofitable than not. There was an average loss per head of $3.17 on the cattle for which records were obtained in 1918-19, and of $10.69 and $14.57 on two groups for which records were obtained in 1919-20. These figures are the results of the first two years' work of a five year study of the basic factors of the cost of fattening cattle, which is being conducted in Nebraska by the Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics, in cooperation with the University of Nebraska and the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture. Similar studies are being conducted in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, and preliminary reports on the work in these States will be forthcoming. POISON SIRUPS EFFECTIVE AGAINST THE ARGENTINE ANT Noah built an ark for himself and his family when the floods came, and the Argentine ants do something quite as effective and a great deal more unique when a flood menaces their home. They cluster together and form a compact ball, which floats along the top of the water until it comes in contact with a secure resting place. That found, the cooperative spirit disappears, and each again becomes an individual looking out for "number one" first and always. In forming a ball the ants in immature stages cluster in the center of the mass, while the queens and workers form the outer portion. As the ball enlarges by the addition of other workers that have been struggling alone in the water, it gradually revolves. During its voyage on the water it keeps revolving slowly by the outside workers striving continually to reach the top of the ball. This permits air to reach the interior. The ball method of traveling is only one of the many ways by which the Argentine ant gains new territory. From Texas to the Atlantic, throughout the South, this pest has now established itself, to the injury of the nurseryman, the trucker, and the orange grower. Farmers' Bulletin 1101, recently issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, gives methods of controlling the Argentine ant found to be effective. Where the infestation has reached proportions of any size, municipal control measures are recommended. The best and most effective of these is the use of tin-can containers for anti-poison sirups. As the ants prefer to climb for their food, these cans are hung near ant trails going up trees and walls. The sirup attracts and at the same time destroys the pest. IT WOULDN'T WORK the results of the first two years' work of a five year study of the basic factors of the cost of fattening cattle, which is being conducted in Nebraska by the Office of Farm Management and Farm Economics, in cooperation with the University of Nebraska and the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture. Similar studies are being conducted in Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, and preliminary reports on the work in these States will be forthcoming in these States shortly. The greater part of the Nebraska cattle covered in the survey work of 1918-19 made their gains at a cost of from 20 to 35 cents per pound, with extremes ranging from 12 to 48 cents, while of the cattle covered the next year the greater part made their gains at from 15 to 35 cents per pound, with an extreme range of from $ to 53 cents. While economical feeding is shown to be the major factor in the cost of fattening after the steer is bought, the investigation substantiates the fact that feeding usually plays a minor part in determining profit and loss, and that buying right and selling right are more often the controlling factors. The cattle in question were bought at about the same figures in both years of the investigation. In 1918-19 three of the droves were bought at between $6 and $7, but most of the cattle covered in the study went into the lot at between $8 and $12. Of the 21 droves covered by the detailed cost-accounting method 11 cost between $10 and $11. The weight of the feeders varied rather widely, averaging about 750 pounds, with but few over 1,000 pounds or under 500. Feed, the most important factor of cost of fattening the steer after the purchase, was found to constitute from 75 to 90 per cent of all expense involved in handling the steers after Where the investigation has reached proportions of any size, municipal control measures are recommended. The best and most effective of these is the use of tin-can containers for anti-poison sirups. As the ants prefer to climb for their food, these cans are hung near ant trails going up trees and walls. The sirup attracts and at the same time destroys the pest. IT WOULDN'T WORK The Mexican's delight in revolution is proverbial. He takes pleasure in guns and gun play, in uniforms, in military rank, if not in military discipline. He revels in loot—in fact in almost everything that soldering affords. But he has comparatively little love for work. Yet the Mexican has his own ideas about revolution, and he insists on strict adherence to the rules of the game. He must have military resolution with all the trappings. Industrial revolution means nothing at all to him. Witness the I. W. W's latest and most amusing feature. The I. W. W., always ambitious, laid its plans for a great strike on October 1, which should start in old Mexico and become general throughout the North American continent. Orators and organizers went over the border in swarms to prepare the way. They shouted from hundreds of soap-boxes—if there be empty soap-boxes in Mexico. They whispered into thousands of ears. Then, on September 26, they called upon the workers to assemble in preliminary protest. There were gatherings in many cities, for it is always easy to get a crowd when men are idle, but the Mexican government, knowing its people, did not interfere. The gatherings did not last. No one appeared in gold lace or ANAHEIM GAZETTE brilliant uniform. No one offered to pass out free firearms or cutlery. The crowds went home. There is to be no general strike in Mexico which shall sweep northward across the continent. The I. W. W. agitators are off to more fertile fields. The Mexican is a specialist in revolutions—of his own kind. CITRUS INSTITUTE Announcement of the date of the year's second Citrus Institute to be held at Anaheim has been made and a program has been outlined. The Institute will open on October 27 and will continue to, and including October 29. Predictions are freely made that the Anaheim sessions will be equally as instructive and interesting as the sessions which featured the year's first institute, held in Santa Ana last summer. Farm Advisor H. E. Wahlberg is arranging a program of field demonstrations which will be the main feature of the institute at Anaheim, several of the more important problems confronting the citrus orchardist will be taken up by specialists and practical growers. The series of demonstrations will be given in an orchard where the practical application of the particular matter under discussion can be seen. Dr. H. S. Reed will deliver talks on the pruning of orange and lemon trees. "The Future of the Manure Supply" is the topic of a paper to be presented by Mr. Barnes, secretary of the Fruit Growers' Supply company. Prof. R: S. Valle will deliver two addresses, "The Tractor vs. The COX'S STATEMENT TO LABOR PROVED TO BE GROSSLY INACCURATE Claim He Had “Never Pressed a Soldier Into an Industrial Controversy” Not True. USED OHIO MILITIA TWICE Question Not About Merits of Strike or Need for Military, but as to Truthfulness. By WILLIAM HOSTER. Columbus, O.—Governor James M. Cox's boasted labor record has been shattered by his own official act. Claiming that he had "never pressed a soldier into an industrial controversy," the record of his action as governor of Ohio in mobilizing the National Guard of this state for service in the steel strike of 1919 has been produced in flat contradiction of his assertion. Not once, but on two occasions was the Ohio guard, at an expense of $23,000 to the people of Ohio, called into service and sent to Akron and held in readiness for action in nearby Canton. The question is not as to the merits of the strike or as to the necessity for the presence of the guard within striking distance of Canton, but concerns wholly the truthfulness of Governor Cox's statement, obviously made to win favor among the workingmen. The facts as brought out in the speech of Republican State Chairman George H. Clark, formally opening the campaign at Columbus, are as follows: The series of demonstrations will be given in an orchard where the practical application of the particular matter under discussion can be seen. Dr. H. S. Reed will deliver talks on the pruning of orange and lemon trees. "The Future of the Manure Supply" is the topic of a paper to be presented by Mr. Barnes, secretary of the Fruit Growers' Supply company. Prof. R. S. Valle will deliver two addresses, "The Tractor vs. The Horse in the Citrus Grove" and "The Cost of Producing Oranges." "Fumigation Injury" is the subject of a talk to be given by Prof. H. J. Quayle. Prof. George P. Gray of the State Fertilizer Control Board, will discuss "Standardization of Barnyard Manures." Drs. J. T. Barrett and H. S. Fawcett will discuss "The Control of Citrus Diseases." Other speakers will be obtained, time permitting. Farm Advisor Wahlberg urges upon all citriculturists the importance of attending the institute. "All citrus men of Orange county should avail themselves of this opportunity to hear and see the best methods of orchard management," said Wahlberg. "The dates of October 27 to 29 should be reserved for the Farm Bureau Citrus School." CITRUS FRUIT SHIPMENTS THROUGH PANAMA CANAL Exchange Manager Says Ships Will Soon Be Carrying Oranges. The shipment of Southern California citrus fruits by water is not only feasible but will be a reality in the not far distant future, in the opinion of L. D. Palmer of Orange, manager of the Orange County Fruit Exchange. Palmer made this statement in commenting on the suggestion made by Linn L. Shaw, in an interview published in the Register Thursday. Paler sees no reason why Newport Harbor should not be made the home port of commercial ships carrying citrus products of Orange and other counties of Southern California, except, possibly, failure of the people of this county to develop the harbor. "The matter of shipping citrus fruits by water is being given serious consideration by the California Fruit Growers' Exchange at this time," said Palmer. "No movement looking to the financing of a line of steamers has REFUSE PERMISSION TO INCREASE FARES Railroad Commission Orders Investigation of Crown Stage. Refusing A. B. Watson, of Santa Ana, owner of the Crown Stage company, operating between Los Angeles and points in Orange county, authority to increase his fares the railroad Commission ordered an investigation of the affairs of the company. Testimony of Watson's application for an increase indicated that his company was getting a return of 29.15 per cent on his investment. Because of this showing the commission, on its own motion, has ordered Watson to appear before Examiner Handford at Los Angeles, at a time yet to be fixed and show cause why the commission should not establish what it may consider to be just and reasonable fares. Analyzing the financial statement filed by Watson in connection with his application for an increase in fares the commission points out an amount these fees cannot cover without further information. er sees no reason why Newport Harbor should not be made the home port of commercial ships carrying citrus products of Orange and other counties of Southern California, except, possibly, failure of the people of this county to develop the harbor. "The matter of shipping citrus fruits by water is being given serious consideration by the California Fruit Growers' Exchange at this time," said Palmer. "No movement looking to the financing of a line of steamers has yet been given consideration. The exchange is investigating the possibility of one or more steamship lines making regular trips from this coast to the Atlantic seaboard points with citrus fruits as their principal cargo. We believe it is only a matter of time until this will be accomplished. "The matter was being investigated just prior to the war and had progressed far enough to give us some line on the running time, rates and other details. Conditions then were very favorable. Even with the increase that we might expect now, the shipment of a good portion of our crop by steamer will be advantageous. "We of Orange county are vitally interested in such a movement. It would be a great saving in the amount of money paid in freight. Fifty to seventy per cent of the valencia orange shipments from this district move to Atlantic seaboard points, and especially during the period from August until we finish our shipments late in the fall. "With the ever increasing production in this district and the shortage of railroad equipment that has been troubling us for the past several years—and it probably will continue for some time—we feel that everything should be done to encourage the shipment of citrus fruits by water," Palmer continued." DODGE BROTHERS BUSINESS CAR Any business that requires delivery can use Dodge Brothers Business car with profit, because its operating-economy and maintenance-economy have been universally established. Chas. H. Mann Exclusive Dealer for Anaheim 210 So. Los Angeles Street Phone 43 Chas. H. Mann Exclusive Dealer for Anaheim 210 So. Los Angeles Street Phone 43 Watson, of Santa Crown Stage combined Los Angeles county, authorfires the railroad and an investigation line company. Testapplication for an that his company of 29.15 per cent. Because of this mission, on its own Watson to appear Handford at Los yet to be fixed by the commission what it may cond reasonable fares. Financial statement in connection with an increase in vision points out an under operating the right to operate Ogden Line. These amounts were paid by Watson for these lines and "are presumed to cover franchise value, good will, going concern value or other intangibles by whatever term called." The commission says in reference to these items: "The Commission will not allow in a rate basis of any carrier any amount of so-called operative rights other than the expense actually paid for the securing of a certificate of public convenience and necessity. Deducting the above mentioned amounts which erroneously appear as operating expenses the correct statement of operating expenses is $84,764.89, and the correct amount derived from operation during the period June 1, 1919 to March 31, 1920, is $19,251.93. After allowing the very liberal depreciation claimed by the applicant the net amount received from operation results in a return of 29.15 per cent on the payable in advance. Investment amounting to $66,024.61 and, in the opinion of the commission, such return is in excess of a reason-able return on the capital invested and justifies an inquiry on the commission's initiative as to the reasonableness of the present rates of fare as charged by the applicant." The Crown Stage Company operate stage lines between Pomona and Long Beach, from Santa Ana to Balboa Beach, from Santa Ana to Long Beach, from Santa Ana to Laguna Beach, from Santa Ana to Orange, Anaheim and intermediate points and from Santa Ana to Los Angeles. Autocracy has come to an end in Europe. It will receive its death-blow in this country on November 2nd. Anaheim Gazette, per year, $1.50. Vote "Yes" on the Chiropractic Initiation Measure Number 5