anaheim-gazette 1921-02-24

NOTES ABOUT THE OIL FIELDS Items of Interest Gleaned From Southern California's Producing Fields and Progress Made. Development in the Richfield since the first of the year have been of such outstanding character in the way of added production that agencies reporting on California output are now planning to keep separate records of this gusher field. Heretofore the Richfield production has been figured in general with that of the Whittier-Fullerton territory, which with an average daily production of $1.200 barrels in 1920, stood second among all California's fields, being exceeded only by the Midway-Sunset, one of the world's greatest producing sections. While General Petroleum, with its 1600 barrel Thompson well; Standard Oil with its great producers from deep Kraemer drilling and Union Oil with heavy producers on the Chapman lease, have maintained public interest in the field since the first of the year, no news of development has been received with more interest than the drilling into oil sands by Harrington-Dumas Oil Company early in the week. Work preliminary to putting the well on production is now under way, and with further depth drilled into the oil a profitable producer is doked for by the large number of Los Angeles people whose funds originally financed the company. President H. W. Cortlander and General Manager Mullen of Harrington-Dumas are planning an ex- Another company locally financed by Vern Dumas is the Ridge Oil Company, whose operations are being watched with keen interest by a large number of residents of this city. At latest reports Ridge was down 2628 feet in a shell formation and drilling as fast as possible to get it down to the producing sands. The log of this well is said to check closely with producing properties in the vicinity and Standard is engaged in some heavy development work on its Kellogg lease in the immediate neighborhood. Ridge Company holding's comprise some 40 acres in a field which is considered practically proven from the results on nearby properties. A high gas pressure was struck around 2400 feet, with substantial indications of oil of such a character as to warrant drilling to the depth to uncover the profitable oil bearing stratas. Drilling is now progressing in the hands of an expert crew, and results of a satisfying kind are looked for within the next few hundred feet. Two more or possibly three, big producers are in sight for the Standard Oil Company at Richfield. Kraemer 2-11, drilling in oil sand at 4200 feet, is showing very strongly and will be the Standard's next gusher. The Kraemer 2-1 drilling in oil sand at 4025 is looking extremely good and bids fair to equal K 2-8, the biggest producer in Southern California. The pipe is on the ground for the continuance of Kraemer 1-5 and the drilling of this deep test well will be resumed at once at 3880 feet. No. 1-12 is in hard sand at 3200 feet and No. 1-13 is rigging us to start drilling. On the Collins property preparations are being made to bring in No. 2 at 4635 feet. The well has been looking The Olive Krug property adjoins the Richfield-Consolidated and now looks like one of the choice properties of the field. The Keystone Iron Works of Los Angeles leased the property some time ago and held it until the success of the Richfield Consolidated began. A few weeks ago it decided to start drilling on the lease and build a rig. The Petroleum Midway stepped in and bought the property, taking over the rig and improvements. It is the intention of the Petroleum Midway to go right ahead with the development of the new lease. From all indications it begins to look as though Huntington Central Oil Company would break the records on their well No. 1 at Huntington Beach. In slightly over a week since spudding in the hole is down around 1600 feet. Considering the fact that during the first several days of operation connections had not been made with the city's lighting plant, and that it was therefore impossible to work three shifts, the depth already reached is remarkable. According to reports from the field the Log of the Huntington Central No. 1 well is checking very favorably with several wells that have recently come in as large producers. Meantime while work is progressing on No. 1 everything is being put in readiness on Huntington Central's other Huntington Beach lease for well No. 2, which is to be spudded in by March 1. Drilling at 3275 feet the Olive Petroleum Company struck a heaving sand that keeps coming up into the pipe and delaying the drilling. As the well is showing sombe oil and considerable gas the delay is annoying. However, it is believed that continued balling will relieve the situation. The Union Oil Company's Newlands No. 1 at Huntington Beach now drilling at 4235 feet is the deepest well in the field. At this depth the formation is a nice brown shale but the formation carries no oil. One of the markets may be fairly active marketing and the system contemplated smaller property be thrown on weeks or months ing the harvest when the farm sacked grain pay for warehill risk of destruction association with the year mark wants of millers as they arise harvest depressa rule does not speculators. Aside from the principal lining as far as in harvesting are required handling labor in later doing away wasting of gravel field to the rear from rats and portions; and metal or conployed), abolished fire, rain can from now wein in the world tem as long r The pipe is on the ground for the continuance of Kraemer 1-5 and the drilling of this deep test well will be resumed at once at 3880 feet. No. 1-12 is in hard sand at 3200 feet and No. 1-13 is rigging us to start drilling. On the Collins property preparations are being made to bring in No. 2 at 4635 feet. The well has been looking good and something around 500 barrels is expectet. Cuc No. 1 stands cemented at 4360 feet. Loftus & O'Bryan is also standing at 4300 feet. Drilling on the Vejar is at 4400 feet and as yet no showing. The Union Oil Company is rushing rig building and preparations to start redrilling on Stearns Nos. 57 and 58 destroyed by fire a few weeks ago. At No. 61, a producer was brought in a short time ago, the casing has collapsed and is being swedged out at 1225 feet. No 64 is drilling in hard sand at 2000 feet and looking very good. No. 65 is a new well rigging up. No. 75 shows a completed rig and No. 82 is building rig. Stearns No. 59 continues to make 1100 barrels daily and is the marvel of this new field. No. 62 is also holding up remarkably good; the producer is making close to 700 barrels. The West Coast Oil Company has its No. 48 drilling in the oil sand at 2525 feet and the well will be brought in now as soon as the sand is drilled through. The well has been looking exceptionally good and should make a 300-barrel producer. Drilling on No. 77 is also in the oil sand at 1975 feet. No. 87 is rigging up to start drilling. No. 88 is still being held with a fishing job at 1900 feet, there being 900 feet of drill pipe in the hole. The Union Oil Company's Newlands No. 1 at Huntington Beach now drilling at 4235 feet is the deepest well in the field. At this depth the formation is a nice brown shale but the formation carries no oil. At Copelan No. 1 2435 feet of hole has been made, the formation here being shale and boulders. The showing of oil reported on the Chino-Corona United last week failed to amount to anything more than a passing showing, and now drilling is going ahead again at 2725 feet in the sandy brown shale. The Ponona Oil Company, after drilling to 2700 feet had some pipe trouble, necessitating pulling and attendant delays. Standards A-4 looks like a big well. At 3125 feet the oil got to coming up around the casing head and showing so strongly that the drilling was discontinued and preparations for bringing in the well was started. Huntington A-3 is testing water conditions. Huntington A-5, drilling at 2750 in sandy shale, is showing oil. Huntington A-6, at 2350, is in sandy shale. A-7 set pipe at 2100 and is standing. A-8 is at 1200 and going down rapidly. A-9 is a new location. Huntington B-1 is holding steadily at 800 barrels, and is the field's best producer so far. B-2 and B-3 are building rigs. C-1 is also building rig. Bolsa No. 1 is drilling out the cement and making a water test at 1250. Bolsa No. 2 is rigging up. Bolsa No. 3 set pipe at 1700 feet and pipe and delaying the drilling. As the well is showing sombe oil and considerable gas the delay is annoying. However, it is believed that continued balling will relieve the situation. The Union Oil Company's Newlands No. 1 at Huntington Beach now drilling at 4235 feet is the deepest well in the field. At this depth the formation is a nice brown shale but the formation carries no oil. At Copelan No. 1 2435 feet of hole has been made, the formation here being shale and boulders. The showing of oil reported on the Chino-Corona United last week failed to amount to anything more than a passing showing, and now drilling is going ahead again at 2725 feet in the sandy brown shale. The Ponona Oil Company, after drilling to 2700 feet had some pipe trouble, necessitating pulling and attendant delays. Standards A-4 looks like a big well. At 3125 feet the oil got to coming up around the casing head and showing so strongly that the drilling was discontinued and preparations for bringing in the well was started. Huntington A-3 is testing water conditions. Huntington A-5, drilling at 2750 in sandy shale, is showing oil. Huntington A-6, at 2350, is in sandy shale. A-7 set pipe at 2100 and is standing. A-8 is at 1200 and going down rapidly. A-9 is a new location. Huntington B-1 is holding steadily at 800 barrels, and is the field's best producer so far. B-2 and B-3 are building rigs. C-1 is also building rig. Bolsa No. 1 is drilling out the cement and making a water test at 1250. Bolsa No. 2 is rigging up. Bolsa No. 3 set pipe at 1700 feet and pipe and delaying the drilling.A well is showing sombe oil and considerable gas the delay is annoying However it is believed that continued balling will relieve the situation The Union Oil Company's Newlands No. 1 at Huntington Beach now drilling at 4235 feet is the deepest well in the field At this depth the formation is a nice brown shale but the formation carries no oil At Copelan No. 1 2435 feet of hole has been made,the formation here being shale and boulders. The showing of oil reported on the Chino-Corona United last week failed to amount to anything more than a passing showing,and now drilling is going ahead again at 2725 feet in the sandy brown shale.The Ponona Oil Company,after drilling to 2700 feet had some pipe trouble,necessitating pulling and attendant delays. Standards A-4 looks like a big well.At 3125 feet the oil got to coming up around the casing head and showing so strongly that the drilling was discontinued and preparations for bringing in the well was started. Huntington A-3 is testing water conditions.Huntington A-5, drilling at 2750 in sandy shale,is showing oil.Huntington A-6,at 2350,is in sandy shale.A-7 set pipe at 2100 and is standing.A-8 is at 1200 and going down rapidly.A-9 is a new location. Huntington B-1 is holding steadily at 800 barrels,and is the field's best producer so far.B-2 and B-3 are building rigs.C-1 is also building rig.Bolsa No.1 is drilling out the cement and making a water test at 1250.Bolsa No.2 is rigging up.Bolsa No.3 set pipe at 1700 feet and pipe and delayingthe drilling.A wellis showing sombe oiland considerable gasthe delayis annoyingHoweveritisbelievedthatcontinuedballingwillrelievethe situation The Union Oil Company's Newlands No.1 at Huntington Beach now drilling at4235feetisthedeepestwellinthefieldAtthisdepththeformationisanicebrownshalebuttheformationcarriesnooil At CopelanNo.12435feetofholehasbeenmade,theformationherebeingshaleandboulders. The showing of oil reported on the Chino-Corona United last week failed to amount to anything more than a passing showing,and now drilling is going ahead again at 2725feetinthesandy brownshale.ThePononaOilCompany,afterdrillingto2700feethadsomepipetrouble,Necessitatifpullingandattendantdelays. StandardsA-4lookslikeabigwell.At3125feettheoligottocominguparoundthecasingleheadandshowingsostronglythatthedrillingwasdiscontinuedandpreparationsforbringinginthewellwasstarted. HuntingtonA-3istestingwaterconditions.HuntingtonA-5,drillingat2750insandyshale,isshowingoil.HuntingtonA-6.at2350,isinsandyshale.A-7setpipeat2100andisstanding.A-8isat1200andgoingdownrapidly.A-9isanewlocation. HuntingtonB-1istholdingsteadilyat800barrels,andisanicebrownshale但theformationisanicebrownshale.ThePononaOilCompany,afterdrillingto2700feethadsomepipetrouble,Necessitatifpullingandattendantdelays. StandardsA-4lookslikeabigwell.At3125feettheoligottocominguparoundthecasingleheadandshowingsostronglythatthedrillingwasdiscontinuedandpreparationsforbringinginthewellwasstarted. The Union Oil Company's Newlands No.1 at Huntington Beach now drilling at4235feetisthedeepestwellinthefieldAtthisdepththeformationisanicebrownshale但theformationisanicebrownshale.ThePononaOilCompany,afterdrillingto2700feethadsomepipetrouble,Necessitatifpullingandattendantdelays. StandardsA-4lookslikeabigwell.At3125feettheoligottocominguparoundthecasingleheadandshowingsostronglythatthedrillingwasdiscontinuedandpreparationsforbringinginthewellwasstarted. The Union Oil Company's Newlands No.1 at Huntington Beach now drilling at4235feetisthedeepestwellinthefieldAtthisdepththeformationisanicebrownshale但theformationisanicebrownshale.ThePononaOilCompany,afterdrillingto2700feethadsomepipetrouble,Necessitatifpullingandattendantdelays. StandardsA-4lookslikeabigwell.At3125feettheoligottocominguparoundthecasingleheadandshowingsostronglythatthedrillingwasdiscontinuedandpreparationsforbringinginthewellwasstarted. The Union Oil Company's Newlands No.1 at Huntington Beach now drilling at4235feetisthedeepestwellinthefieldAtthisdepththeformationisanicebrownshale但theformationisanicebrownshale.ThePononaOilCompany,afterdrillingto2700feethadsomepipetrouble,Necessitatifpullingandattendantdelays. StandardsA-4lookslikeabigwell.At3125feettheoligottocominguparoundthecasingleheadandshowingsostronglythatthedrillingwasdiscontinuedandpreparationsforbringinginthewellwasstarted. The Union Oil Company's Newlands No.1 at Huntington Beach now drilling at4235feetisthedeepestwellinthefieldAtthisdepththeformationisanicebrownshale但theformationisanicebrownshale.ThePonnaOilCompany,afterdrillingto2700feethadsomepipetrouble,Necessitatifpullingandattendantdelays. StandardsA-4lookslikeabigwell.At3125feettheoligottocominguparoundthecasinglehead和showingsostronglythatthedrillingwasdiscontinuedandpreparationsforbringinginthewellwasstarted. The Union Oil Company's Newlands No.1 at Huntington Beach now drilling at4235feetisthedeepestwellinthefieldAtthisdepththeformationisanicebrownshale但theformationisanicebrownshale.ThePonnaOilCompany,afterdrillingto2700feethadsomepipetrouble,Necessitatifpullingandattendantdelays. StandardsA-4lookslikeabigwell.At3125feettheoligottocominguparoundthecasinglehead和showingsostronglythatthedrillingwasdiscontinuedandpreparationsforbringinginthewellwasstarted. The Union Oil Company's Newlands No.1 at Huntington Beach now drilling at4235feetisthedeepestwellinthefieldAtthisdepththeformationisanicebrownshale但theformationisanicebrownshale.ThePonnaOilCompany,afterdrillingto2700feethadsomepipetrouble,Necessitatifpullingandattendantdelays. StandardsA-4lookslikeabigwell.At3125feettheoligottocominguparoundthecasinglehead和showingsostronglythatthedrillingwasdiscontinuedandpreparationsforbringinginthewellwasstarted. The Union Oil Company's Newlands No.1 at Huntington Beach now drilling at4235feetisthedeepestwellin.thefieldAtthisdepththeformationisanicebrownshale但theformationisanicebrownshale.ThePonnaOilCompany,afterdrillingto2700feethadsomepipetrouble,Necessitatifpullingandattendantdelays. StandardsA-4lookslikeabigwell.At3125feettheoligottocominguparoundthecasinglehead和showingsostronglythatthedrillingwasdiscontinuedandpreparationsforbringinginthewellwasstarted. The Union Oil Company's Newlands No.1 at Huntington Beach now drilling at4235feetisthedeepestwellin.thefieldAtthisdepththeformationisanicebrownshale但theformationisanicebrownshale.ThePonnaOilCompany,afterdrillingto2700feетhadsomepipetrouble,Necessitatifpullingandattendantdelays. StandardsA-4lookslikeabigwell.At3125feетtheoligотtocominguparound-thecasingle-head和showingsostronglythat-the-drillingwas-discontinued-and-preparations-for-bringing-in-the-well-is-started. The Union Oil Company's Newlands No.1 at Huntington Beach now drilling at4235feетis-the-deepest-well-in-the-field-A well-is-showing-some-oil-and-conservable-gas-the-delay-is-not-necessary-of-the-season-it-will-be-in-exceptional-of-wind-property-to-cotten-on-the-season-it-will-be-in-economical-of-the-year-with-the-crop.In any event-acreage-shows-the-livestock-rigated lands-the-alfalfa-cattle-long-distance-the-action-rates-the-value-of-income-tax-fair-proportions-to-cotten-on-the-season-it-will-be-in-farming.An anahetm-payable-in-a ANAHEIM GAZETTE are being made to bring in Surf No. 1 the wildcat well that will test out the south side. is standing jeemented Preparations BULK GRAIN HANDLING AND COOPERATIVE MARKETING Bulk grain handling is coming with a rush in California. After lagging 20 years behind the other grain producing regions of the world, California farmers have at last become convinced that the annual expenditure for sacks and for extra labor in harvesting that they entail is totally unnecessary and that they are entitled to a larger share of the actual returns from their crops. This reform may be credited largely to the now impulse toward cooperative marketing. Grain growers have for years known the cost of sacks was a burden, that handling the grain in bulk was easier, quicker and cheaper, that the losses from rats mice and from gnawed and torn sacks could be reduced to practically nothing by storing in metal grain bins and vermin-proof elevators, and a number of other things of the sort which taken together would seem to make the change inevitable; but it has required the cooperative marketing movement to turn the trick at last. The minute the representatives of the farmers got together to discuss ways and means for placing their products on the market without paying tribute to the middlemen it became apparent that they couldn't afford to fool around any longer with jute bags. They were in obstruction and a nuisance at every stage of the game. The great terminal elevator at Oakland was acquired on a five-year lease, with privilege of renewal for another five years. FRIENDSHIP, NOT PUPILAGE It is not true, as averred by some that a large part of the antipathy to the league of nations scheme is due to continued resentment of the treatment accorded the American colonies by Great Britain prior to the Revolution. It asserts the Republican Publicity Association through its President, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr. "It is not true that the people of the United States are opposed to the league because of any feeling adverse to the people or the government of Great Britain. No such feeling exists. The American people are sufficiently familiar with history to know the attitude of England toward her American colonies was determined by the King, George 111, a foreigner on the British throne, and that the people of England were so much in sympathy with the colonies that the King was compelled to hire Hessians in order to secure enough fighting men to fill his army in America. The hope that the colonies would gain their liberty was openly expressed by men in high position in the British government. "But even if the oppressive policies of the mother country had been supported by the British people, it would still not be true that the Americans are today governing themselves in accordance with the old animosities. There is only the kindiest feeling in America toward Great Britain, so far as the relations of the two people are concerned. "But this does not mean that out of friendliness of spirit the American people intend to surrender their national independence to a league in which Great Britain and her dependencies would have a dominating influence." HARDING ON TARIFF Senator Warren G. Harding, speaking at Minneapolis during the presidential campaign, outlined his views as to how the great agricultural interests of our great country could best be served. Here is what he said: "The time has come when as a nation, we must determine upon a definite agricultural policy. We must decide whether we shall undertake to make United States a self-sustaining nation—which means that we shall grow within our own boundaries all the staple food products needed to maintain the highest type of civilization, or whether we shall continue to exploit our agricultural resources for the benefit of our industrial and commercial life, and to leave to posterity the task of finding food enough, by strong arm methods, if necessary, to support the coming hundreds of millions. If we should unhappily choose the course of industrial and commercial promotion at the expense of agriculture, cities will continue to grow at the expense of the rural communities, agriculture will inevitably break down and finally destroy the finest rural civilization, with the greatest possibilities the world has ever seen. Decreased farm production will make dear food, and we shall be obliged to send our ships to far-away nations in search of cheap foodstuffs, the importation of which is sure to intensify agricultural discouragement and distress at home. Ultimately there will come the same fatal breakdown, and from the same causes which have destroyed the great civilization of centuries past. A frank recognition by our people of this fundamental truth is necessary if we are successfully to work out this great national problem." OPPORTS AND EXPORTS OF FARM PRODUCTS Publication of Department of Commerce figures for the first eleven months in 1920, compared with the corresponding months in 1919, gives some very startling data relative to imports and exports of agricultural products. The figures briefly show an enormous increase in imports of foodstuffs in 1920 as compared with 1919, and a tremendous decrease in exports of foodstuffs from the corresponding period. An analysis of the report will probably disclose one of the real causes of the increase. The department of Agriculture is concerned over the large planting of operative marketing movement to carry the trick at last. The minute the representatives of the farmers got together to discuss ways and means for placing their products on the market without paying tribute to the middlemen it became apparent that they couldn't afford to fool around any longer with jute bags. They were in obstruction and a nuisance at every stage of the game. The great terminal elevator at Oakland was required on a five-year lease, with privilege of renewal for another five years; feeder elevators were planned for a large number of railroad points scattered throughout the grain growing regions and farmers all through the state have begun figuring on the attachments for the harvesters, the grain-tight wagon or truck boxes and the metal storage bins by means of which they can take advantage of the new conditions. One of the great advantages which may be fairly expected from co-operative marketing of grain on a large scale and the system of farm storage now contemplated will be that a much smaller proportion of the crops will be thrown on the market in the few weeks or months immediately following the harvest than was the case when the farmer must either leave the sacked grain lying in the fields or pay for warehouse space and run the risk of destruction by fire. The new association will doubtless encourage all the year marketing, thus meeting the wants of millers and other consumers as they arise and avoiding the after-harvest depression of prices which as a rule does nobody any good except speculators. Aids from the marketing features, the principal advantage of bulk handling are as follows: Saving of labor in harvesting time, since fewer men are required on the harvester and for handling the gathered crop; saving of labor in later handling and hauling; doing away with the cost of sacks; doing away with the scattering and wasting of grain all the way from the field to the mill; reducing the losses from rats and mice to very small proportions; and (if metal grain bins and metal or concrete elevators are employed), abolishing the losses from fire, rain and thieves. Five years from now we will be wondering why in the world we clung to the old system as long as we did. TOO MUCH ALFALFA? The department of Agriculture is concerned over the large planting of operative marketing movement to carry the trick at last. The minute the representatives of the farmers got together to discuss ways and means for placing their products on the market without paying tribute to the middlemen it became apparent that they couldn’t afford to fool around any longer with jute bags. They were in obstruction and a nuisance at every stage of the game. The great terminal elevator at Oakland was required on a five-year lease, with privilege of renewal for another five years; feeder elevators were planned for a large number of railroad points scattered throughout the grain growing regions and farmers all through the state have begun figuring on the attachments for the harvesters, the grain-tight wagon or truck boxes and the metal storage bins by means of which they can take advantage of the new conditions. One of the great advantages which may be fairly expected from co-operative marketing of grain on a large scale and the system of farm storage now contemplated will be that a much smaller proportion of the crops will be thrown on the market in the few weeks or months immediately following the harvest than was the case when the farmer must either leave the sacked grain lying in the fields or pay for warehouse space and run the risk of destruction by fire. The new association will doubtless encourage all the year marketing, thus meeting the wants of millers and other consumers as they arise and avoiding the after-harvest depression of prices which as a rule does nobody any good except speculators. Aids from the marketing features, the principal advantage of bulk handling are as follows: Saving of labor in harvesting time, since fewer men are required on the harvester and for handling the gathered crop; saving of labor in later handling and hauling; doing away with the cost of sacks; doing away with the scattering and wasting of grain all the way from the field to the mill; reducing the losses from rats and mice to very small proportions; and (if metal grain bins and metal or concrete elevators are employed), abolishing the losses from fire, rain and thieves. Five years from now we will be wondering why in the world we clung to the old system as long as we did. "Of course there are some things the British government does that a great many Americans do not like. We have sometimes thought Great Britain a little too grasping—a fault we condemn in our individual friends as we do in friendly nations. We felt a good deal of sympathy for the Boers out in South Africa when they were in difficulty with the British Empire. A lot of Americans are in sympathy with Ireland in the present controversy, even though they cannot see a perfect solution for the difficulty All these are minor and individual matters that do not concern us as a nation and which do not in any degree influence our views relative to the merits of the question of the league of nations." "We do not hate England; we do not despise her; we do not fear her; we merely desire to remain independent and to share our own international policies from time to time in accordance with our own sense of justice and wisdom as the circumstances may arise. We do not propose to form in haste an alliance that we might regret at our leisure. We no not propose to bind ourselves to a document that we might later wish to denounce as a scrap of paper—an act which is unthinkable on the part of the United States. We propose to act with deliberation—not hysterically. We are determined that the agreements by which we are bound shall be the acts of our own free wills and not forced upon us by would-be masters. We are anxious to promote world peace, not world war. We expect to retain among the nations of the earth that separate dear food, and we shall be obliged to send our ships to far-away nations in search of cheap foodstuffs, the importation of which is sure to intensify agricultural discouragement and distress at home. Ultimately there will come the same fatal breakdown, and from the same causes which have destroyed the great civilization of centuries past. A frank recognition by our people of this fundamental truth is necessary if we are successfully to work out this great national problem. We are pledged to a revision of the tariff as soon as conditions shall make it necessary for the preservation of home market for American labor, American agriculture and American industry. For a permanent good fortune, all must have a common interest. If we are to build up a self-sustaining agriculture here at home, the farmer must be protected from unfair competition from those countries where agriculture is still being exploited and where the standards of living on the farm are much lower than here. In times past, duties on agricultural products were largely in nature of paper tariffs, for we were a great surplus producing nation. Now that consumption at home is so nearly reaching normal production, the American farmer has a right to insist that in our trade relations with other countries he shall have the same consideration that is accorded to other industries, and we mean to protect them all." TOG MUCH ALFALFA? The department of Agriculture is concerned over the large planting of alfalfa. The slump in cotton is turning cotton growers to other crops, at least to a limited extent. Especially is this found true in the irrigated lands of the Southwest. The cotton growers are now disappointed at market conditions, and their present tendency is to turn their cotton land back to alfalfa, because alfalfa during the last season has been scarce and the price high. Department specialists believe there is danger that this irrigated land will be planted to alfalfa to such an extent that by the end of next season the supply of alfalfa hay will be in excess of the local feed requirements. It would seem the part of wisdom to continue to devote a fair proportion of the irrigated land to cotton, using the most efficient and economical methods of production. In the expectation that market conditions next year will give a fair return for the crop. In any event an excessive alfalfa acreage should be avoided because the livestock population of these irrigated lands is now below normal and the alfalfa crop too bulky to be moved long distances to market. In general, the action most urgently needed in the valleys of the Southwest is the increase of livestock, so as to permit a return to a sound basis of diversified farming. Anahetm Gazette, per year, $1.50, payable in advance. The use of tractors is an established thing in citrus groves. To a growing extent horses and mules are being replaced thereby. Many readjustments in ranch organization are necessitated by this change. A discussion of these readjustments led by practical men who have "been thru the mill" will be a principal feature of the Citrus Institute meetings as San Bernardino, February 25 and 26. As a result of the extremely low lemon market there is much interest in the possibility of converting lemon groves into orange groves. Observation on the behavior of top-worked groves during the past twenty years will be presented and discussed together with methods of procedure. These and other important topics should attract every citrus grower to San Bernardino during the Institute meetings. The war took a toll of 8,150 members of the British aristocracy. G. Harding, speakduring the presidenlined his views as agricultural interesity could beat be what he said: come when as a namine upon a defirty. We must decide undertake to make self-sustaining nation that we shall grow boundaries all the acts needed to maintype of civilization, shall continue to extural resources for industrial and comto leave to posterity ing food enough, by foods, if necessary, to long hundreds of millard unhappily choose industrial and commerthe expense of agriwill continue to grow of the rural communiwill inevitably break by destroy the finest with the greatest world has ever seen production will make we shall be obliged to to far-away nations in foodstuffs, the imch is sure to intensify couragement and disUltimately there will fatal breakdown, and causes which have detat civilization of confrank recognition by his fundamental truth we are successfully to reat national problem. oes for the critical condition in which American producers of grain and cattle now find themselves. During the first eleven months of 1919 the United States imported foodstuffs to the value of $1,061,041.043. For the first eleven months in 1920 the imports of foodstuffs reached the sum of $1,719,995.947. This was an increase in imports of foodstuffs of $703,954,874 or 69 per cent. The American farmer exported in the first eleven months of 1919 foodstuffs to the value of $2,468,476.557. For the first eleven months of 1920 his exports amounted to only $1,854,521.657. This was a decrease of $13,954,990 or 25 per cent. In other words, the American farmer's competition from abroad in 1920 was 69 per cent greater than it was in 1919, while his sales abroad were 25 per cent less in 1920 than in 1919. The American farmer is very vigorously protesting against existing trade conditions. These figures certainly bear out the complaint. What business enterprise would not complain if its books showed a decrease of 90 per cent in one year on the credit side of the ledger? Orange Show at San Bernardino FEBRUARY 18 TO 28 Bigger, better, more entertaining that ever. Millions of oranges taken from the finest of California's groves. Automobile, tractor and Industrial departments unsurpassed in any exposition west of the Mississippi. And a Joy Zone thnt will knock 'em dead. California’s Greatest Mid-Winter Event —All roads lead to the Eleventh National Orange Show, February 18 to 28, inclusive. At Urbita Springs Park, San Bernardino. Fordson TRADE MARK TRACTOR THERE IS ONLY ONE MODEL OF THE FORDSON TRACTOR. HENRY FORD KNOWS THE WISDOM OF CONCENTRATING EVERY ENERGY ON THE MODEL; HIS GENIUS HAS BEEN CENTERED ON BUILDING JUST FOR COMPACT, EASILY OPERATED TRACTOR—A TRACTOR USEFUL FOR SMALL FARMS OR LARGE FARMS, FIELD WORK OR BELT WORK AND THAT WILL COST THE LEAST TO MAINTAIN AND OPERATE. HENRY FORD & SON HAVE SPECIALIZED—they have made the tractor and made it well. That means lower manu-acturing costs and a lower selling price for tractor parts, and a most serviceable, reliable tractor. IT MEANS THAT THE FORDSON DEALER IS ABLE TO CARRY A MODLY STOCK OF TRACTOR PARTS, AND THAT HE CAN GIVE OMPT, EFFICIENT SERVICE TO THE FORDSON FARMER. THE FORDSON, LIKE THE FORD CAR, is a UTILITY FOR USE DURING THE ENTIRE YEAR. THE DEMAND FOR FORDSONS IS FAR GREATER THAN PRESENT PRODUCTION. PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW—if YOU DELAY, YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO GET YOUR TRACTOR WHEN YOU WANT IT. DER NOW—it is YOUR PROJECT. MADE BY HENRY FORD & SON AND SOLD BY George Dunton Ford and Fordson ANAHEIM Sales and Service PHONE 263