anaheim-gazette 1922-03-15

URGE BEAN MEN TO STRENGTHEN ORGANIZATION "With one exception every product which was marketed during the past year, by a co-operative association, was sold at a profit; while with one exception, every product which was not marketed in this way was disposed of at a loss." This is the statement, made by State Market Director Henry Maddox, at a convention of Orange county bean growers in the council chamber at the city hall at Santa Ana Saturday afternoon, which is arousing bean growers to extend efforts towards strengthening their association connections, and, by means of a campaign to be conducted soon, to increase the number of members in the county. About sixty-five bean growers were present at the gathering. Director Maddox was the first speaker to be introduced by President W. C. Jerome. Maddox described some of his activities, and gave numerous concrete examples of what he termed the benefits of the co-operative marketing plan. "The farmer loses money on his product," he said, "yet the buyer pays more than it is worth. How is that accounted for? The middlemen take all the profit, which, if it were divided between the farmer and the consumer, would react to their mutual benefit. "I have no quarrel with the retail grocer. He is not to blame. Probably more grocers fail than in any other line of business. It is the men 'in between,' against whom we of the cooperative markets are acting. "You growers in California have a monopoly on lima beans. There is no successful competition; you can control your product. Yet in spite of that fact many who were not in the association sold at a loss last year." Secretary-Manager R. L. Churchill, of the California Lima Bean association, was the next speaker. He point-agree to work on a commission basis, and then lay their plans for a systematic drive. "As a rule, they connived with certain men to plead guilty to bootlegging activities, or bluffed others into believing they were federal officers. Then, they would advise the victim to go into court, plead guilty and accept a fine. The 'cut' of Jeffreys and Metz from such fines was said to be something enormous. Jeffreys made it his business to pose as morality expert, presenting letters and endorsements from ministers, mayors and others in the cities where he had worked. These, coupled with his statements that he was a federal officer, deceived the municipal executives in many cities and resulted in a rich harvest for Jeffreys and his confederates." Officers said that Jeffreys, who makes a fair appearance and presents credentials from men and women well and favorably known in California, appeared in San Bernardino some time ago and conducted a clean-up campaign which netted him a hanoi sum. In San Bernardino he worked with members of the council, ministers and a daily newspaper. As a result of his drive in San Bernardino, a mass meeting was held at the court house, which was packed, warrants were issued on a wholesale scale, and quantities of liquor, which Jeffreys claimed he had found in the possession of his victims, were confiscated by sheriff's deputies. Jeffreys, characterized by Santa Ana officers as the "man of many aliases," appeared in that city last June, at the instance of Mayor Mitchell and the city council, and for a time was engaged in conducting what he termed a clean-up campaign. Jeffreys and his operatives remained in Santa Ana from June 2 to 11, and turned in a bill against the city for $989.32. Before leaving, Jeffreys gave station plants and run them. The organic mand can be divisible commercial or materials such as. Of the former 12 to 14.5 per cent contains little off-metals. Tankage the slaughter hog rogen from 4 to 6 phoric acid from proportion depenation of blood contained in the rogen is made. The tenttent the lower will be and, again phoric acid contri ngrogen must be much out of raisure there is so much in doctoring it ter. The purity should be sure to tuition for organ fortify a low gren. The special oil plant feeding is of wood, leaf and for lack of nitrate leaves, light green and the wood green thin. Of course all the elements in office of this elecNext in import is phosphoric acid is found in various age, bone, and found in certain ducts. Superphosphate by treating phosphoric acid in products is what phosphate. This itity is a mooted it is water soluble land, but there is that it reverts a more grocers fall than in any other line of business. It is the men 'in between,' against whom we of the cooperative markets are acting. "You growers in California have a monopoly on lima beans. There is no successful competition; you can control your product. Yet in spite of that fact many who were not in the association sold at a loss last year." Secretary-Manager R. L. Churchill, of the California Lima Bean Association, was the next speaker. He pointed out the advantages of membership in the association, and explained several matters touched upon by Maddux. He told of the success of grading beans, and of the demand for the higher grade which has constantly increased ever since it was introduced to the markets. "Members of the California Lima Bean Growers' association were paid three-fourths of a cent more for their product than those outside," he declared. "This year there is going to be a material increase in the supply of beans. Next fall 1,500,000 bags will be on the market, and unless some force is present to prevent it, the present high price will fall with the demoralization of the market. This preventive force is the association." W. B. Williams, cashier of the First National bank of Santa Ana, favored a "revival," as he termed a campaign for arousing interest in bean growing, and proffered any support that his bank could give. G. L. Crawford, of the California National bank, made a similar statement. As a result of the talks a motion was passed, asking to have workers from the state department and from the association visit the communities for the purpose of enrolling new members. This campaign will be started within a few weeks, and the visitors will be assisted by local communities. Several growers signed membership contracts after the meeting. PROHIBITION AGENT PROVED TO BE A FAKE Man Who Made Raids in This County Now in Jail W. F. Jeffreys, who conducted so-called "clean-up" campaigns in Fullerton and Santa Ana last summer, is now in jail at Los Angeles, charged with impersonating a federal officer. According to D. S. Bassett, deputy United States marshal, Jeffreys, alias Charles C. Nevans, has been conducting fake prohibition raids in a number THE RUDIMENT OF CITRUS FERTILIZATION The most important element of plant food is nitrogen; it is also the most expensive. There is no other chemical element that compares in importance to the horticulturalist with nitrogen. The air we breathe is made up of 79.02 phosphoric acid in phosphate. This city is a mooted place it is water soluble land, but there is that it reverts to contact with the area of penetration is said by these people. The third essential to be deficient for potash. The soil that most of our plants with enough potash for many years should make it available an abundant supply problem is solved that in most cases potash applied to rural supply was application of potash sulphate of potash the lower grade with chlorine coated good for citrus. The fourth element be deficient is assured for years that our soils are supplied with we art awakening that we were not applications having lous orchard soils that many efficient in lime aid to supply it in my garden. SUGAR BEET M FOR HE Seventy-five pints beet acreage in planted for the month of paring ground planting will be the growing season of the su... Man Who Made Raids in This County Now in Jail W. F. Jeffreys, who conducted so-called "clean-up" campaigns in Fullerton and Santa Ana last summer, is now in jail at Los Angeles, charged with impersonating a federal officer. According to D. S. Bassett, deputy United States marshal, Jeffreys, alias Charles C. Nevans, has been conducting fake prohibition raids in a number of southern California cities. Federal officers in Los Angeles charge that Jeffreys and a confederate, A. W. Metz, cleaned up thousands of dollars in Pasadena, Long Beach, Santa Monica, Bakersfield, Whittier, Fullerton and other places. Both Metz and Jeffreys were in the federal toils, the former being out on $5000 bail, and the latter a prisoner of the government officers. "Jeffreys, who has been active in southern California for several years, has been under observation by federal officers for some time," said Bassett. "Thus far, we have been unable to determine the exact amount Metz and Jeffreys obtained through fake prohibition activities. However, it will run into the thousands, as they operated extensively at Long Beach, Pasadena and elsewhere. They cleaned up $1500 at Long Beach and $1200 at Pasadena. Some have said the Santa Monica campaign netted them $15,000, but we have not checked up on this." "In mulcting the public, these men and their confederates invariably ignored the police departments in the various cities where they operated." "It was a part of their plan to go to the mayor of the city where they proposed to work, present to him numerous credentials from the mayors of cities where they had been heretofore, The druggist was charged with selling liquor in contravention of a city ordinance. THE RUDIMENT OF CITRUS FERTILIZATION The most important element of plant food is nitrogen; it is also the most expensive. There is no other chemical element that compares in importance to the horticulturalist with nitrogen. The air we breathe is made up of 79.02 per cent nitrogen, and yet the plant that grows in it can not take it into its system except in very small quantities without the aid of outside agencies. It is also the element most likely to become exhausted in our soils as nature is continually on the job of reducing it to the original state in the atmosphere. It is also likely to be found in your soil in a water soluble condition subject to wastage through rain and irrigation run-off. It is the part of good orchard practice to prevent these drains upon the nitrogen supplies in the soil. The sources of nitrogen for plant use are organic or inorganic, that is, from vegetable and animal matter or from chemicals. As the Japanese who was buying fertilizers classified them—pointing to the nitrate of soda he said "Too much medicine." He meant he wanted his fertilizer to be derived from organic sources. He knew the difference between a chemical agent which was quickly available, but also quickly dissipated, and one which is in a natural organic form and becomes available as it becomes decomposed. The organic almost always costs more on the market than the inorganic and is worth more because there is a limited supply and we must have it. The production of inorganic fertilizers is only limited by the size of the produc- ANAHEIM GAZETTE tion plants and the power available to run them. The organic materials at our command can be divided into two classes: commercial or sacked goods and raw materials such as manures, straw, etc. Of the former class blood runs from 12 to 14.5 per cent nitrogen and contains little of other fertilizing elements. Tankage, being a product of the slaughter house also, contains nitrogen from 4 to 10 per cent and phosphoric acid from 2 to 20 per cent, the proportion depending upon the proportion of blood or meat and bone contained in the material from which it is made. The higher the nitrogen content the lower the phosphoric acid will be and, again, the higher the phosphoric acid content, the lower the nitrogen must be. If the proportion is much out of ratio the buyer may be sure there is some reason to be found in doctoring it with inorganic matter. The purchaser of fertilizers should be sure that there is no substitution for organic matter in order to fortify a low grade material. The special office of nitrogen in plant feeding is to encourage growth of wood, leaf and fruit. A tree starved for lack of nitrogen will have small leaves, light green or yellow in color, and the wood growth will be short and thin. Of course plant growth needs all the elements, but this is the special office of this element. Next in importance as a plant food is phosphoric acid. As shown above, it is found in variable quantities in tankage, bone, and manure. It is also found in certain manufactured products. Superphosphate is usually made by treating phosphate rock with sulphuric acid in proper proportion. The product is what is called an availability is a mooted one. It is true that it is water soluble when placed on the land, but there are those who tell us that it reverts as soon as it comes in office of Sheriff C. E. Jackson, who was called out Friday night to look for a pair of "quick-change" highwaymen. Abbott and Hogbin, en route to San Diego, had stopped at about 7 p.m. to repair a tire. Two men attired in dark clothes and wearing fedora hats, drove up from the south in a stripped Ford, without a top. They offered aid to the stalled motorists and alighted. One of them suddenly whipped out a revolved and covered the Long Beach men. Abbott was relieved of $28, while $6.50 was taken from Hogbin. The robbery effected, the bandits entered their Ford and blithely drove away toward Santa Ana. The victims did not obtain the Ford's license number. Abbott and Hogbin did not report the holdup until about 10 p.m., when they notified Sheriff C. E. Jackson. Jackson and Deputy Sheriff Woods traveled out to Irvine, but the trail had grown "cold" by that time, and there was no sign of the bandits. They could have plowed many miles between them and the scene of the robbery before it was reported, Jackson said. After a certain age any man is more attracted by good cooks than by good looks. ORANGETHORPE SCHOOL DISTRICT Notice to Contractors. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Trustees of the Orangethorpe School District, Orange County, California, will receive bids for the erection and completion of a new grammar school building to be erected on site of present building, Orangethorpe Avenue. Each bid must be made out on forms which may be obtained from SUGAR BEET MEN LOOK FOR HEAVY CROP IN YEAR Seventy-five per cent of the sugar beet acreage in Orange county to be planted for the 1922 season is yet to be seeded, according to the statement of a man closely identified with the industry in this county. Weather conditions in February interfered with planting with the result that March this year will become the month of high pressure in preparing ground and seeling. Late planting will be reflected at the end of the growing season by starting operations of the sugar mills of the coun- MOTORISTS HELD UP The Good Samaritans who stopped to aid Wayne Abbott and Earl Hogbin, two Long Beach motorists who were halted by tire trouble about a mile south of Irvine, on the state highway, collected $35 for their services, it was revealed Saturday in a report at the Notice to Contractors. Notice is hereby given that the Board of Trustees of the Orangethorpe School District, Orange County, California, will receive bids for the erection and completion of a new grammar school building to be erected on site of present building, Orangethorpe Avenue. Each bid must be made out on forms which may be obtained from the architect, and must be accompanied by a bidder's bond of a value equal to five (5) per cent of amount of bid, made payable to the Clerk of the Board of Trustees. All bids to be sealed and delivered at the office of the Trustees in the present school building, on or before 2 o'clock P.M., Thursday, March 30th, 1922, at which time and place said bids will be opened in public. The successful bidder will be required to guarantee that the work will be completed ready for acceptance by August 15th, 1922, and to give a bond equal to 25 per cent of amount of the contract to that effect and that the work of the contract will be completed according to the terms of the contract. He will also be required to give bond equal to 50 per cent of amount of contract as a material and labor bond. Both these bonds to be given by a surety company approved by the Board of Trustees. Plans and specifications are on file with the Clerk of the Trustees, and copies may be obtained by application to the Architect, Frederick H. Eley, Santa Ana, Calif. A deposit of Ten Dollars ($10.00) will be required for copies of plans, such deposit to be refunded when plans are returned to the architect in good condition and at time stipulated. The Board of Trustees reserve the right to reject any or all bids received. By order of the Board of Trustees of the Orangethorpe School District, Orange County, California. E. F. BLOODGOOD, Clerk. Dated March 14th, 1922. 3-15-3t beet acreage in Orange county to be planted for the 1922 season is yet to be seeded, according to the statement of a man closely identified with the industry in this county. Weather conditions in February interfered with planting with the result that March this year will become the month of high pressure in preparing ground and seeding. Late planting will be reflected at the end of the growing season by starting operations of the sugar mills of the county at a correspondingly later period. According to the authority, the sugar factories of the county will handle the product of between 25,000 to 30,000 acres, with the product of approximately 3000 acres outside of the county being brought in. Some acreage in this county will be planted to beets for factories in other southern California counties. It was observed by the sugar beet man that in past years when heavy rains and floods have prevailed, crop yields have been big and he is anticipating good tonnage returns this season. In his opinion the average for the county will be better than ten tons to the acre. "Beet growers are facing a favorable year," he said. "Conditions are such as to warrant the prediction that growers will get good returns. Labor is plentiful and of the better class, and this is a feature that is going to have an important bearing on the development and harvesting of this season's crops. Prospects for fair prices on sugar are good. 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