anaheim-gazette 1925-10-22

FARM BUREAU NOTES Several Factors Influence Walnuts By H. E. WAHLBERG, Farm Advisor The crack test employed by the walnut association is bringing forcebly to our minds the fact that the quality of this year's walnut crop, as a general rule, is below par. When we see the test read 20 per cent shrivel, 12 per cent wormy, etc., we begin to reflect back to figure causes and factors that might account for these conditions. In the first place most of us are convinced that one of the outstanding causes for the large percentage of shrivels and blows was the lack of favorable moisture conditions in the lower strata of the tree root systems. As has been pointed out previously during the growing season by the farm advisor's office, the moisture content of the lower soils in the walnut orchard has been below normal, due no doubt to the unusual shortage of winter rains during the past few seasons, and particularly the preceding winter. A 10-foot soil auger has disclosed in many groves the lack of sufficient moisture from the fourth foot down. The tree has been drawing upon the reserve moisture in the strata between the fourth and tenth foot for several years, and where that moisture has not been replaced by natural precipitation or artificial irrigation, the tree roots have been unable to secure the moisture they needed from this region, resulting therefore in a tendency to shriveled meats. No doubt the two brief hot spells during the growing season had some influence on this condition, but the lack of moisture in the lower strata would aggravate the effect of such hot spells. The wormy condition of the walnuts this season is self-evident. The codling moth infestation is no doubt becoming more serious each year. The annual infestation may fluctuate in intensity from year to year and may seem to be less one year than another, but taken over a period of years, there is no question but that the infestation is Seed Department Begins to Function By A. M. STANLEY, Secretary Orange County Farm Bureau The broadcasting of information relative to the Kanota oat seed marks the first public work of the Pure Seed Association of California, organized a year ago by the California Farm Bureau Federation. After months of careful observation of the growing conditions of the reed and study as to its adaptability, the association states that the Kanota oat is a variety, agreeable to and regions and that the seed which they have certified is O.K. in every way. It is stated that selected oats should replace California red and Texas red oats in California as being in every way superior. The Kanota oat matures from 10 to 14 days earlier than other red oats under similar conditions, produces taller and finer straw and leaves, heavier heads and shows a higher test weight per bushel, are some of the claims made by the association. The heavy kernel makes it desirable for either feed or milling purposes, and it is especially desirable for poultry feed. Both the hay and grain is a lighter color than the Texas red and, owing to its earlier maturity, this oat usually escapes stem rust. The production of Kanota oats in California has been under test for more than five years by demonstrators in many counties in both ends of the state. A series of acre tests at the University Farm, Davis, for comparative yields this year showed Kanota, 8.2; California red, 52.6, and Coast black, 22.6 bushels, respectively. The yield has always compared favorably in dry years, and good crops have been harvested when other varieties have failed. The association introducing this new seed is an organization of growers giving particular care to the production of selected varieties and is not a selling organization. It is promoted by Teachers' Issue Many New Roll up School administeaching certifitions from recordents and narration to the following counties: it was Mitchell, county; Special-certiflation-Mattie Coord Fishback, Henderson, A. Cornell Howar, Mildred Louise, Mitchell, Emma, Paul, Elizabeth, Hiddinger, M. Agnes L. ShaSmith and Vern Health and d Verna Margaree, Junior high Bean, Lota E. Helen Childers, Parslow. Secondary I Lynn H. Crawford, High school Dryer, Alma Erne Katherine, Beth Pumphrey, Edith W. Thatcher, Raymond M. Special certifition Mary Elizabeth Garet Baker, Helen Goodwin Howard E. Elizabeth H. Amanda Garba, Marie Helwig, Ernat Love, Phil. Reed, community Ellingsworth W. Tests. Special certifition—Florence Malna Erswell, Henderson, Biggins, commu- No doubt the two brief hot spells during the growing season had some influence on this condition, but the lack of moisture in the lower strata would aggravate the effect of such hot spells. The wormy condition of the walnuts this season is self-evident. The codling moth infestation is no doubt becoming more serious each year. The annual infestation may fluctuate in intensity from year to year and may seem to be less one year than another, but taken over a period of years, there is no question but that the infestation is becoming greater. The only remedy for this is concerted action on the part of the community to carry out effective control measures. No doubt this year's experience will create a demand on the part of the growers to keep a close watch on the spread and control of this potential pest. Already many growers have expressed their desire to have a special field inspector to watch the progress of the codling moth during the season and supervise the actual control operations throughout the district. Such inspection and supervision might be effected in a co-operative arrangement between the horticultural commission and the associations. The heavy aphis infestation of the past season is also responsible for a share of the deficiency in the quality of the crop. If control measures had been carried out more universally, the deterring effect on the growing walnut would have been appreciably less. Expert Discusses Farm Economics Prof. L. W. Fluharty, specialist in agricultural economics of the University of California, is in the county reviewing with walnut and citrus growers the returns and expenses for crops of the current year. Some twenty-five growers are keeping accurate account of income and expenditure for the purpose of analyzing their farm business. During the past year Professor Fluharty has met with the growers every two months, helping them on their accounts and presenting the latest information on the trend of the farming business. This course of lectures has been given in co-operation with the agricultural extension service in Orange county. Professor Fluharty will address the farm center at Yorba Linda Tuesday night, October 20, at the Woman's Clubhouse, and also a group of growers meeting at the First National Bank of Olive, Wednesday evening, 7:30 o'clock. Anone interested in the study of farm income is invited to attend either of the above meetings. Bureau Opposes Water Application Endorsing the Swing-Johnson bill, with the all-American canal attached, and requesting that action on the Gi- The Bee Business in Southern California Bees in California, both as producers of honey in a commercial way and as adults to the fruit grower, are discussed in circular No. 297, just issued by the College of Agriculture, University of California, and available to farmers for asking at the farm advisor's office. The circular is in two parts; "A Survey of Beekeeping in California," by G. H. Vansell, and "The Honey Bee as a Pollinizer," by Prof. E. R. DeOng. Vansell takes up the honey industry, pointing out that in general the climate of California is satisfactory for raising bees. He gives the bee population of the state by counties, showing Imperial to be the leading honey producing county of the state. He describes the various races of bees, the honey producing plants of the state and the diseases of bees. Figured on the basis of capital invested, he says the profits appear much greater than in most farming projects. Professor DeOng, pointing out that insects are necessary for the pollination of most deciduous fruits, says there are three ways bees can be seen red for orchards; by renting, employment of a trained beekeeper for bees owned or leased, and ownership and personal A hive to an acre. Professor DeOng says, is generally considered sufficient for good pollination results. Women's Auxiliary Of Dairy Council (Continues is not intended reservoir. It be object of control to stop it. The lower water reservoir would be open subject to upper 92,500 nc circulation, and should be without open. In addition planned at the With such a rate to deliver 20,000 acre-feet in both on it. It is proposed river channel which to facilitate their estimation angement 90 meter must insure during this action could ground. The cost of and spreading placed at $5,000 benefits result this reservoir the annual cost... Bureau Opposes Water Application Endorsing the Swing-Johnson bill with the all-American canal attached, and requesting that action on the Girand application for a water right on Diamond creek, a tributary to the Colorado river, be postponed, were the outstanding actions of the regional farm bureau meeting held at Santa Ana Saturday. It was brought to the attention of the delegates that the all-American canal was essential to the protection of the water conservation program of the Colorado river and should remain in the bill to make the project complete and workable. In the Girand application a hearing had been set to be held in Los Angeles, November 26, a date conflicting with a hearing on practically the same subject held in Washington. People who would be interested in both hearings would be unable to attend one or the other, so a postponement was sought. Diamond creek is tributary to the Colorado river below the Boulder Dam site and it is feared that any development here would prejudice the government against finally taking over the entire project. Other matters of particular interest to agriculture were discussed by the delegates, who represented farm bureau regions Nos. 1 and 2, consisting of the counties of San Diego, Imperial, Riverside, San Bernardino, Orange, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Inyo. All of the counties except the last two named were represented. Delegates representing the women's department of the farm bureau were seated at this meeting and will be called at all future meetings. The expressed purpose of this meeting was to determine policies which should be pursued by the California Farm Bureau Federation during the coming year. Women's Auxiliary Of Dairy Council The second meeting of the Women's Auxiliary of the California Dairy Council will meet in the Y. W. C. A. rooms, Fifth and Sycamore streets, Santa Ana, October 26, at 2:30 p.m. This meeting is held in conjunction with the regular quarterly meeting of the directors of the California Dairy Council. An interesting and instructive program has been arranged. Prof. M. E. Jaffa, head of the division of nutrition, state university, Berkeley, will be the principal speaker. A round table discussion will be conducted followed by music and refreshments. All interested in food problems are cordially invited. California Dairy Council Meeting A joint two days' session of the California Dairy Council and the Southern California Milk Producers' Association is slated for October 26 and 27, at the farm advisor's office in Santa Ana. The personnel of the board of the California Dairy Council is representative of the entire state. They hold quarterly meetings, of which this will be the last for this year. Little need be said of its function, as its activities in telling the facts concerning the value of dairy products in the diet, also representing the dairymen in a legislative way, has made the organization and its work well known. The program will commence about 10 a.m. each day. These meetings will be open to the public, and all interested are urged to attend. Teachers' Permits Issued by County Many New Names Added to Roll of Instructors School administration, supervision and teaching certificates, based on credentials from recognized universities, colleges and normal schools, will be issued to the following named applicants, connected with the public schools in Orange county. It was announced by R. P. Mitchell, county superintendent of schools: Special certificate: school administration—Mattie Danneman, Mason McCloud Fishback, Anna Fried, Frank A. Henderson, A. D. Henshel, Gertrude Connell Howard, Clarence Ace Marcy, Milkred Louise Mead, Lola Bedford Mitchell, Emma Gertrude Myers, Linda Paul, Elizabeth Renshaw, Glenn Athol Childslerger, Mattie Lou Robertson, Agnes L. Shambaugh, Clarence Jay Smith and Verna E. Wells. Health and development certificate—Verna Margaret Van Seoyoc. Junior high school certificate—Violet Bean, Lota Elizabeth Blyth, Tessie Helen Childers and Elizabeth Eleanor Parslow. Secondary instruction certificate—Lynn H. Crawford. High school certificate—Helen Irene Dryer, Alma Erswell, Cornellius L. Hurley, Katherine Mahaffey, Lillian Elizabeth Pumphrey, Minnie Rebecca Spicer, Edith W. Thajcher, Charles Clay Trippett, Raymond Maplesden Warren. Special certificate: secondary grades—Mary Elizabeth Brubaker, music; Margaret Baker, miscellaneous subjects; Helen Goodwin Culp, physical education; Howard Elmer Chambers, general; Elizabeth H. Wagner, library; Anna Amanda Garbock, citizenship; Anna Marie Helwig, domestic arts; Samuel Ernst Leave, physical education; Grace E. Reed, commercial subjects; Thomas Ellingsworth Williams, vocational subjects. Special certificate: school supervision—Florence Maud Millner Arnold, music; Alma Erswell, general subjects; Frank A. Henderson, general subjects; Alfred Higgins, commercial subjects; Henrietta Jones, special supervision; Gertrude Connell Howard. Won't Wed "Goose" total of no less than 17,400 deaths in automobile accidents, not including those which involved railroad trains, or street cars, and automobiles. Motor vehicles caused a rate of two deaths for every hour in the day in this country last year, according to the statistics. A LEAGUE INCIDENT John Steele says British enthusiasm on behalf of the league of nations has suffered a bit of a chill. The other day the Turks refused to accept the arbitration of the council of the league. Then the Swedish delegate on the Mosul Inquiry committee would not play with the British and French and his objection sent the question to The Hague court, where it is likely to be some time, despite the fact that an early adjustment is highly desirable. The British and French, having agreed to work out a settlement of the Syrian and Iraq questions in harmony, this unexpected obstruction is a sharp disappointment. We can sympathize and meditate. Sweden has no interest and no responsibility in Syria or Mesopotamia, but a Swedish delegate to the league has to do his own judging, else why should he waste his time at Geneva? He rightly scorns to be a mere rubber stamp for the British and French members. On the other hand, his action is from the viewpoint of British and French imperial responsibilities, an intolerable impertinence. We should feel the same way in their shoes and meanwhile we ought to congratulate ourselves that we are not in their shoes. The incident well illustrates the embarrassments of participation in the league. We are invited to enter it on the theory that it is a means for working out world peace by way of just decisions. As a matter of fact, it is a complex of European politics in which we should find ourselves hopelessly enmeshed in a perpetual melee of integers and ambitions with which the American people have only the remotest concern, if any. We don't want a Swedish delegate or a Roumanian or any delegate from a country which has no interest or responsibility mixing in a situation in which we are vitally interested. We want to be free to manage our own foreign relations. Advocate of Dam Tells of Benefits (Continued from Page One) is not intended to create a storage reservoir. It is to be a check-dam, the object of the project being to control the flow of water, not to stop it. The lower $1,500 acre-feet of this reservoir would be for the conservation of water, and valves therefrom would be subject to control. The remaining upper 92,500 acre-feet would be for flood regulation, and the openings therefrom should be without gates and perpetually open. In addition, a large spillway is planned at the flow-line of the reservoir, with such a reservoir, it would be possible to deliver a regulated supply of 220,000 acre-feet, according to Lippincott, in both ordinary and wet years. It is proposed to acquire 1000 acres of river channel lands below the dam which to spread flood waters and facilitate their seepage underground. It is estimated that with such an arrangement 99 per cent of the surplus water has ordinarily gone into the basin during the past 29 years of observation could have been put underground. The cost of building the Prado dam and spreading works is tentatively placed at $5,000,000. The gross annual benefits resulting from the building of this reservoir are put at $35,000 and the annual costs of interest, and maintenance are $70,000. Therefore the estimate stood during most of the winter in ponds throughout the territory between Santa Ana and Huntington Beach. On account of the artesian water, the road to Newport Beach was at one time, before the highway was paved, a nightmare to the pioneers, who found it necessary to haul heavy loads over that road. At present the artesian area of the coastal plane covers but 55 square miles, being confined to a narrow strip running through the northwestern part of Orange county and a few miles into Los Angeles county. If the present rate of shrinkage is duplicated—as undoubtedly it is in other artesian basins, the time is not far when there will be no such thing in Southern California as an artesian well. Automobile Notes All records in the number of visitors to the various national parks of the West will be broken this year, it is indicated in preliminary reports being received by the touring bureau of the Automobile Club of Southern California. New high marks have been set by those parks which have closed their 1925 season, and high records have been made to date by those national playgrounds which are still open to the public. A gain of 7 per cent over the travel record of last year was made in Yellowstone national park, according to the season's figures. This remarkable government reserve, which opened to the public June 18 for a period of approximately three months, netted a total travel record of 154,208 persons, or approximately 50,000 a month. Interesting sidelights are revealed in the detailed report of Horace M. Albright. Yellowstone superintendent. There were 99 different makes of automobiles among the 33,194 which entered the park. The cosmopolitan atmosphere among the 33,194 atmospheres of Yellowstone's visiting population is seen in the report that customs registered from every state in the union, Alaska, Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, Canal Zone and 27 foreign countries, including England and seven other countries of the British empire. Practically one-half of the visitors were from the 11 western states, while the remaining half came from outside this territory. This equal division of persons using the government playgrounds is considered sufficient proof in the West that federal aid for highways should be continued. With Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Zion I river channel lands below the dam in which to spread flood waters and facilitate their seepage underground it is estimated that with such an arrangement 90 per cent of the surplus water has ordinarily gone into the sea during the past 29 years of observation could have been put underground. The cost of building the Prado dam and spreading works is tentatively placed at $5,000,000. The gross annual benefits resulting from the building of this reservoir are put at $35,000 and the annual costs of interest and maintenance $300,000. Therefore the estimated annual net benefit is $535,000. The Prado reservoir site is situated at a point where it could be effectively utilized as one of the distributing units for the waters derived from the Colorado river, in case such an aqueduct as has been proposed is built. Its elevation would be such as to command by gravity the towns and agricultural lands of Orange county. The construction of the Boulder Canyon dam on the Colorado river is remote, and when built the expense of water obtained therefrom would be far greater than the cost of that obtained from the Prado dam. The only other available water supply of large magnitude which might be utilized by Orange county is the sewage from the city of Los Angeles, which could be spread upon the plain for irrigation and which would recharge the ground water supply by percolation. The large increase in pumping plants in the upper drainage basin of the Santa Ana river will result in a depletion of the flow in the lower canyon of the river, despite the preaching operations. During the past few years the underground water level in Orange county has been dropping at the average rate of 2½ feet per annum. The present overdraft on the ground water is reflected in the shrinkage of the artesian areas of Southern California. In 1888, an area of 315 square miles of the coastal plane, embracing the northwestern part of Orange county and the southwestern part of Los Angeles county, was dotted with artesian wells. There was a time when water atmosphere of Yellowstone's visiting population is seen in the report that guests registered from every state in the union, Alaska, Hawaiian Islands, Puerto Rico, Canal Zone and 27 foreign countries, including England and seven other countries of the British empire. Practically one-half of the visitors were from the 11 western states, while the remaining half came from outside this territory. This equal division of persons using the government playgrounds is considered sufficient proof in the West that federal aid for highways should be continued. With Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Zion Park, Glacier Park and other western reserves growing constantly more popular among tourists of the entire civilized world, it is indicated that an adequate system of highways to these attractions is necessary. Since the sparse populations of most of the states in which these government lands are located have difficulty in raising funds for the necessary highway development, it is considered only just in the West that Uncle Sam should continue to help in the road construction. That improperly controlled traffic in the United States costs $2,000,000,000, or $25 a year for each man, woman and child in the nation, is the estimate contained in reports reaching the club. That is the price the country is estimated to pay in loss of life, accidents, loss of time through congestion, depreciated real estate values, and in other ways for the lack of properly developed traffic facilities and their control. This estimate, which is four times the waste caused by fire losses annually, is based on data gathered by the committee on metropolitan facilities of the national conference on street and highway safety. Leader of the world in death rate due to automobile accidents is America's record, according to reports of the public safety department of the club. This rate was 14.8 fatalities for every 100,000 population against 5.2 in England and Wales, 4.3 in Scotland, 4.6 in New caland, 3.6 in Canada during 1923. Figures for 1924 show that for 158 American cities the automobile accident death rate was 19.4 per 100,000, with a We Stand Back of Our Repairs No half baked jobs go with us. You drive out of here with the best job of re-insulation you can get anywhere, and the assurance that we'll stand back of it. Same way with all our repairs. We sell Willard Threaded Rubber Batteries, too, and we stand back of the insulation in them for the entire life of the plates. NO CHARGE FOR THIS SERVICE Rubber Batteries, too, and we stand back of the insulation in them for the entire life of the plates. NO CHARGE FOR THIS SERVICE Specialists in Repairs for Everything Electrical on Automobiles. 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