anaheim-gazette 1922-12-07

A GROWING PRODUCT OF ORANGE COUNTY The Spanish Pimiento First Grown By a Tustin Man From an ounce of seed, imported from Spain in 1908, to a 1200-acre planting in 1922, proves the progress of the pimiento growing and packing industry in southern California. The packing of the annual crop is handled by plants which, with equipment aggregating an investment of several hundred thousand dollars and which employ 1200 workmen during the canning season convert the raw material into better than 125,000 cases of 100 cans each. The seed of the Spanish pimiento was brought to southern California by a man who is now an official in one of the largest southland canneries. The seed was given to C. E. Utt, a grower in the Tustin district for a trial. After several years of experimentation on the part of growers and financial setbacks to the packer, the canned pimiento was offered the American consumers in competition with the imported Spanish product. The pimiento is grown from seed sown directly in the fields during the latter part of March. Later the plants are thinned out to twenty inches apart in the rows, the latter being spaced three feet apart. This practice is comparatively new. A few years back an experienced grower would scout the idea that good yields of any type of pepper could be obtained through this system of planting. The old system of planting in hot beds, and later in the open, then transplanting the seedling plants in the field was thought to be the only way that this vegetable could be grown. The new system, however, seems to be satisfactory. The pimiento bears prolifically loss to find a source of reliable information concerning crop conditions in other growing sections. Some agricultural publications are not careful in sifting out unreliable data from the copy that they receive; at present, too, the government crop-reporting service is handicapped by the lack of co-operation on the part of the growers. A nation-wide movement toward better crop reporting service, and against any publicity of a reckless kind would be opportune. The pimiento is harvested in October and November, the canning season following that of the tomato. The growers pick the pimientos in baskets, or buckets, and sack them in the fields. Later they are hauled to the roadside and placed on trucks. As most of the fruits ripen at the same time, the fields can be gleaned at one or two pickings. The larger canneries take care of the transportation of the fruits from the fields to the cannery in their own trucks, and through efficient handling, the pimientos are in the cans twenty-four hours after they are picked from the vines, thus insuring the quality of the canned product. The severe frost of the last week of October damaged the crop this year very severely. The frosted portions of the fruit must be cut off at the cannery, and the whole process of canning is slowed down. Jack Frost visited southern California rather early this year, and his visit was not welcomed by the Orange county pepper growers. The most important step in the canning of the pimiento is in the removal of the peel. The Spaniards, in the early days, roasted the fruits on heated rocks, thus removing the skin. Some of the local canneries still use a greatly improved system of this local growers, rative cannery, and big markets. Locations far from satisfied above, while whole industry is in growers, and they are withstanding our nation's seems that some rays will need industrially yis to continue succeed as it has in COL. HOUSE It is to be hoped that chautauqua on Should Run Their end with the Clems lectures. For four lectures. For four American public houses mostly to European we should do to be wife who leaves her dishes unwashed and gaged in a battle-roof while she visits her structs her how to has nothing on them. On two things seem to agree: The us should be can Uncle Sam should a butler, gardener, cook night watchman in rope. Incidentally, few hundred million tory performance would be appreciated. The American pointed in Clemens him to be a fighter, to be a practical watched his crafts sailless with something ment, and Mr. W trading with the Ti three feet apart. This practice is comparatively new. A few years back an experienced grower would scout the idea that good yields of any type of pepper could be obtained through this system of planting. The old system of planting in hot beds, and later in the open, then transplanting the seedling plants in the field was thought to be the only way that this vegetable could be grown. The new system, however, seems to be satisfactory. The pimiento bears prolifically as it is now grown, yields of five to eight tons to the acre being an average. During the summer and early fall the pimientoes are irrigated and cultivated regularly. It is a long-maturing crop, and one that requires considerable capital to finance, so that the canneries advance funds to the growers, taking crop mortgages. This practice gives rise to considerable controversy. At the present time most of the growers are Japanese. Practically the entire crop is grown in Orange county. Americans declare the margin of profit in pimientoes to be too small to justify them in attempting the crop and there are consequently few of them in the business. At the present time such a claim appears to be justified. The growers (or canneries) pay up to $50 per acre rental for the land, and with a contract price of $30 per ton, the gross returns only figure around $200 an acre. As stated before, pimiento is a long-season crop, and with the rental and other expenses, the acre profit cannot be very large. Something, apparently, must be done to place the industry on a firmer and more permanent foundation. The recent tariff revision was criticised by the importers of the Spanish product as being prohibitive. With a rate of 6 cents per pound, averaging a per case duty of $1.50, the new rate will not prohibit the importation of the Spanish pimiento. On the other hand, it will protect a profitable southern California industry, and equalize the price of the domestic and imported product. The Spanish packers buy their cans from Germany, paying half as much as their American competitors, and the wages of the cannery employees in Spain only amounts to a third of the present American wage. Yet it has been proven that the imported product has often been quoted, ex-warehouse in New York, at a price less than the cost of the empty cans and the raw The Spanish packers buy their cans from Germany, paying half as much as their American competitors, and the wages of the cannery employes in Spain only amounts to a third of the present American wage. Yet it has been proven that the imported product has often been quoted, ex-warehouse in New York, at a price less than the cost of the empty cans and the raw pimientos in southern California. Naturally, we want a duty that will enable the local grower to have a fair chance at a reasonable profit. The quality of the local product, as our canneries pack them, is much higher than that of the imported one. The southern California pimiento industry has a new rival which she should consider seriously. If Sherman should go marching through Georgia in 1922 he would probably be surprised to find that the negroes are for saking the cotton fields to harvest pimiento, which is being grown in some sections of that state. According to an article in one of the largest agricultural papers, over 6000 acres of them were grown last year, and packed in a growers 'co-operative cannery. That there was a considerable acreage planted last year is true, but if it totaled 6000 acres there must still be some cases of pimientos of last year's pack in Georgia. For, according to reliable data, such an acreage, harvested and put into cans, would supply the entire pimiento demand in the United States for three years! The Georgia experiment station published a bulletin on the culture of pimientos last year, and, with certain reservations, the text has considerable reliable information that could be used to advantage by the local canneries, and their growers. Local growers and canners are always at a ANAHEIM GAZETTE COL. HOUSE IN SESSION It is to be hoped that the European chautauqua on "How Americans Should Run Their Government" will end with the Clemenceau series of lectures. For four years, at least, the lectures. For four days, at least, the American public has listened courteously to European advisers on what we should do to be saved. The housewife who leaves her beds unmade, her dishes unwashed and the children engaged in a battle-royal in the parlors, while she visits her neighbor and instructs her how to run her household has nothing on the European statesmen. On two things many of them seem to agree: That Europe's debts to us should be cancelled; and that Uncle Sam should assume the roles of butler, gardener, cook, stableman and nightwatchman in the flats of Europe. Incidentally, to give bond of a few hundred millions for the satisfactory performance of these duties would be appreciated. The American people are disappointed in Clemenceau. They knew him to be a fighter, and believed him to be a practical diplomat. They watched his craftsmanship at Versailles with something akin to amusement, and Mr. Wilson's desperate trading with the Tiger to receive his local growers, a Growers' co-operative cannery, and is closer to the big markets. Local field conditions are far from satisfactory, as was outlined above, while in Georgia the whole industry is in the hands of the growers, and they are Americans. Notwithstanding our natural advantages it seems that some radical changes in the field will need to be made, if the industr yis to continue to grow and succeed as it has in the past decade. TIMBER CRUISERS RETURN TO CIVILIZATION Bronzed by sun and wind, blessed with enormous appetites and presenting the very picture of health, thirteen forest service timber cruisers who have been working in the woods since last April returned to civilization last week. Under the direction of Forest Examiner O. M. Evans, of the San Francisco forestry headquarters the party cruised and mapped 93,400 acres in the California, Plumas and Stanislaus national forests, containing over 1,000,000,000 board feet of lumber. The purpose of the work was to obtain estimates and maps of logging chances on which future sales of government timber can be made. Cruising was done according to the latest improved forest service methods of timber survey, in which the diameter and height of 10 per cent of the standing trees are measured on regularly laid-out strips running through the forest. Map data were also secured with Abney hand levels and chained distances were cruised by the survey party, as follows: 1. Thoms creek, Tehama county, California national forest. Area 14,100 acres; estimated stand 20,000,000 feet board measure. This chance offers an opportunity for logging the timber of the Sacramento valley near Corning. 2. Long valley, Plumas county. Plumas national forest. Area 21,700 acres; estimated stand 240,000,000 feet board measure. Located on the mid-dile fork of the Feather river along the Western Pacific railroad. 3. Eureka ridge, Plumas county. Plumas national forest. Area 22,900 acres; estimated stand 250,000,000 feet board measure. Tributary to the middle fork of the Feather river along the Western Pacific railroad. 4. Middle fork of the Stanislaus river, Tuolumne county, Stanislaus national forest. Area 34,700 acres; estimated stand 500,000,000 feet board measure. FIRES EXACT HEAVY TOLL More than a thousand forest fires occurred in the national forests of California during the past season, according to the preliminary report just made public by the United States for est service headquarters in San Francisco. These conflagrations, numbering 1034, burned over a total of 290,800 acres, of which 192,000 acres was government land. The damage to timber and reproduction on the federal forests is estimated at $134,000. Severe damage also resulted on some of the most important watersheds of the state through the destruction of their forest cover, with impending floods, soil erosion and damage to irrigation and water systems. Seventy-five per cent of the fires on the national forests were man-caused. ASSEMBLY The county will no formal rectory versity port presses are last rural tern essary ber of them. Californias The American people are disappointed in Clemenceau. They knew him to be a fighter, and believed him to be a practical diplomat. They watched his craftsmanship at Versailles with something akin to amusement, and Mr. Wilson's desperate trading with the Tiger to receive his support of the league of nations with something akin to disgust. They know that the Versailles treaty is responsible for most of the misery of Europe today; that it was a document drafted by Clemenceau, approved by Lloyd George, and attested by Woodrow Wilson. They resent the statement of M. Clemenceau that America left France in the lurch. They remember that Clemenceau sneered at the league idea, but sold his support of the league for Mr. Wilson's promise that America would become a party to a triple alliance of Great Britain, France and the United States, a promise which Mr. Wilson had no authority to make; a promises which was made after 39 United States senators had served notice on Europe that purpose of the work was to obtain estimates and maps of logging chances on which future sales of government timber can be made. Cruising was done according to the latest improved forest service methods of timber survey, in which the diameter and height of 10 per cent of the standing trees are measured on regularly laid-out strips running through the forest. Map data were also secured with Abney hand levels and chained distances. "We had a wonderful trip and lots of hard work," said Mr. Evans. "The boys of our crew were a specially fine bunch of men, being forest students recruited from the state universities of California, Washington, Montana and Minnesota and from the Oregon agricultural college and the forest of Syracuse university, N.Y. We traveled with a pack train of five mules when on the jobs, and moved from forest to forest by motor truck. A real old-timer cook furnished the gastronomical features so essential to outdoor life, while the mules supplied music and incentive for our morning "setting-up" exercises. Four special national forest logging Join Our CHRISTMAS CLUB AND Save Special Another Week of Unusual Values in GAS RANGES The Most Beautiful Made, at Great The first week of our thirty-day expectations and from all indies the people of this city appreared in the ranges and prices AND-- Save every week—a few pennies—a nickel—dime or more—(Small can easily spare without inconvenience). Deposit them weekm grow into dollars. Yes, a pile of Dollars, and GET A CHECK Christmas. For every cent you have SAVED—Plus Interest. Old and Young—Children and Babies are invited to beocme don't miss it—enroll at once. Let every one in the family join. American Savings Bank First National Bank Building NAHEIM, CALIFORNIA The Most B Made, at Gre The first week of our thirty-day expectations and from all indi the people of this city appre played in the ranges and price 30-Day Sale Price $52.00 are made better, from better n a lower price. Note a few of the outstanding double rank oven burner, white drop oven door, rounded corner perfection as human skill will asked for one of inferior qualit COOK BOOK F This coupon when presented d store will entitle you to one famous Cook Books, contain hundred and forty recipes. Edward 127 W. Center St. PAGE THREE by the survey Tehama county, forest. Area 14stand 20,000,000 This chance of for logging the mamento valley near Plumas county. Forest. Area 21,700 and 240,000,000 feet located on the midher river along the road. Plumas county. Forest. Area 22,900 stand 250,000,000 e. Tributary to the Feather river Pacific railroad. the Stanislaus county, Stanislaus area 34,700 acres, 100,000,000 feet board HEAVY TOLL and forest fires national forests of the past season, accademary report just United States for. fires in San Frangrations, numberor a total of 290192,000 acres was The damage to tion on the federted at $134,000. resulted on some cont watersheds of the destruction of with impending and damage to irsystems. cent of the fires on man-caused. per cent of the fires which started before they had covered an area of 10 acres each. $156,000 was expended by the government during the year in fire suppression work. The Shasta national forest leads the list with 142 fires. The Plumas forest had 103 fires and the Lassen 97. In southern California, on the Angeles, Cleveland and Santa Barbara national forests, there were 195 fires, which burned over 100,000 acres of government land largely covered with brush and chaparral, but exceedingly important from a watershed protection standpoint. The largest fire of the year started September 11 on the chamise-covered slopes of the Californian national forests. Within four days it had swept over an area of 40,000 acres. Three hundred men were employed on this fire, which cost the forest service $23,000 to suppress. Compared with 1921, the national forest fire record for this season shows a decrease of 97 in the total number of fires, but an increase of approximately 75,000 acres in the area burned over, due largely to the extensive brush fires in southern California. ASSISTANT FARM ADVISORS The typical system whereby one county agent is at work in a county will not serve the needs of rural California, asserts B. H. Crocheron, director of agricultural extension. University of California, in his annual report for 1921-22, which is now off the press. Certain California counties are larger and more important agricultural units than are some of the eastern states and this has made it necessary gradually to increase the number of extension agents at work in them. Already half the counties in California have assistant farm advisors were organized for extension work and farm advisors installed in them. These counties are San Benito, Inyo and Lassen. Thus forty counties, comprising ninety per cent of the farms of the state, now have the benefit of organized agriculturl extension work. In addition to showing the growth of agricultural extension service in the state, the annual report describes the results of the work along various lines, such as demonstrations with cover crops tests with commercial fertilizers lime and gypsum, cereal demonstrations spread of long pruning methods for deciduous fruit trees, dairy improvement campaigns and demonstrations with poultry. Notable results were secured during the year in the work to improve the farm home and to increase the health of rural communities and these are set forth concisely in the report. A copy of the annual report may be secured by addressing the director of agricultural extension, Berkeley, California. THE NATIVITY 'Twas Christmas Eve, and bitter cold, The wind had ceased to blow; I saw a cottage by the road Half buried in the snow. An upper window showed a light' And over field and fen, A joyous peal of bells announced The birth of Christ again. Lo, from the lighted window came A new-born baby's cry. And o'er the cottage roof, behold, A star shone in the sky— Perhaps the very same that stood O'er Beachem of yore, For Christ in every little child Is born on earth once more. will not serve the needs of rural California, asserts B. H. Crocheron, director of agricultural extension, University of California, in his annual report for 1921-22, which is now off the press. Certain California counties are larger and more important agricultural units than are some of the eastern states and this has made it necessary gradually to increase the number of extension agents at work in them. Already half the counties in California have assistant farm advisors at work. Other counties will desire to increase the number of extension agents as rapidly as funds are available. During the past year three addl. And over field and fen, A joyous peal of bells announced The birth of Christ again. Lo, from the lighted window came A new-born baby's cry, And o'er the cottage roof, behold, A star shone in the sky— Perhaps the very same that stood O'er Behlshem of yore, For Christ in every little child Is born on earth once more. HIS DAILY HYMN OF HATE One of the things we look for when we pick up the papers is to see what Mr. Gompers denounced on the previous day. Special Stove Offer Such Opportunities of Saving are Few and Far Between The Most Efficient Gas Range Made, at Greatly Reduced Prices First week of our thirty-day sale on Tappan Eclipse Gas Ranges exceeded all expectations and from all indications, the present week will be even larger. 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