anaheim-gazette 1927-12-01

Many Activities During Past Year Farm Advisor's Annual Report Shows Record Production When all the crops have been harvested in Orange County for the 1927 season, the f. o. b. returns to the grower will approximate $41,000,000, according to the annual report of the Agricultural Extension Service, just completed by Harold E. Wahlberg, farm advisor, and his assistants. The citrus and walnut income alone will reach $34,000,000 this year. The past year has been very active for the extension department, which is carrying on educational work in relation to cultural and economic problems of agriculture. Being the local representative of the United States department of agriculture and the University of California, the farm advisor's staff submitted the report to those institutions located at Washington, D. C., and Berkeley, respectively. The local office is conducting demonstrations and co-operative projects in fifteen rural communities in Orange county. These projects embrace many problems of agricultural production and include practically every crop—citrus, walnuts, lima beans, avocados, persimmons, sugar beets, grain, peppers, truck crops poultry, dairy, and cattle. Besides these, the farm advisor's office is directing junior agricultural club work and economic studies. The farm advisor's activities are purely educational and demonstrational, and do not involve law enforcement in pest control and quarantine. During the past year, ending November 26, the report shows that 2179 farm calls were made at the request of farmers; 3590 people called at the office in Santa Ana for agricultural information; 108 field demonstrations were given; 11 automobile tours, four extension schools, 59 center meetings, 71 departmental meetings, and 168 miscellaneous meetings, making a total of 419 meetings. The attendance at these meetings was 18,835. A summary of estimated crop valuations for 1927 enumerates the following data: National Forests Big Business Enterprise Yield the Government More Than Five Millions Per Year The aggregate net area of the 160 national forests of the country on June 30, 1927, the close of the last government fiscal year, was 158,800,424 acres—an area one and a half times the size of the state of California. National forests are now located in 32 states and in the territories of Alaska and Porto Rico. The estimated value of the natural resources of these forests is $1,500,000,000, and the net revenue received from timber, grazing and other resources during the past fiscal year was $5,155,661. The 18 national forests of the California district, comprising California and southwestern Nevada, with headquarters in San Francisco, cover a total net area of 19,142,211 acres, or about one-fifth of the land area of the state. Of this total, 18,593,807 acres are within the boundaries of California, 541,691 acres in Nevada, and 7223 acres in southern Oregon. The resources of these forests is conservatively estimated to exceed $300,000,000 in value. The receipts for the last fiscal year from the forests of the California district totaled $1,162,581, of which amount 25 per cent was returned to the state for distribution to counties in which federal forests are located for schools and roads. In addition to this amount, $1,153,983 was expended during the past fiscal year by the government on forest highways and trails within and adjacent to the national forests. The national forests of California and other states are administered by the United States forest service under the policy of "conservation through wise use." Such uses include the growing and cutting of timber on a perpetual crop basis, use of range lands for livestock, recreation, and many other activities. Public Owners Fails at Lack Gross Mismanagement The people of Long covered that municipal public utilities is not supposed to be where the citizens voted on issue for purchase or adopted. Berkley is that the prevailing $1 per 1000 cubic feet of your city has privately owned it sold by the sherriff loye's letter accompain read. In recommending rates, the report rises number of steps before the city gas dumps is to the effect should obtain as services of a highly skilled person who has had a California natural gas company who was new administration survey and study movement scores the fiftieth of the department terms and takes up that millions of culpable blown into the air because of laxity. "All I can say on it is too pitiful." A summary of estimated crop valuations for 1927 enumerates the following data: Oranges ... $27,000,000 Walnuts ... 4,000,000 Lemons ... 2,250,000 Lima Beans ... 3,000,000 Blackeye Beans ... 250,000 Miscellaneous fruits—(Avocados, persimmons, apples, etc.) ... 500,000 Sugar Beets ... 250,000 Grain and Hay ... 900,000 Peppers and Pimientos ... 750,000 Truck Crops (Tomatoes, Cabbage, Sweet Potatoes, Celery, etc.) ... 1,250,000 Poultry Products ... 750,000 Dairy Products ... 1,750,000 Cattle ... 700,000 Total f.o.b. Value Agricultural Production ... $43,350,000 Concrete Yards for Brooder Houses By W. M. CORY, Assistant Farm Advisor The use of concrete floors in poultry houses has long been recognized as the most satisfactory and safest kind of material for that construction. And lately the practice is becoming quite widely adopted of hard surfacing the yards, especially those adjacent to brooder houses. It seems impossible to prevent roundworm infestation through any soil treatment or management now known. However, by covering the yards with concrete or other hard surfacing material, worm infestation can be overcome. Those who are using them are highly pleased with their results so far. It was thought for a time that the hard surfaced yards, if thoroughly cleansed before each lot of chicks were put in, would aid materially in coccidiosis control. Undoubtedly they have helped a great deal, but have not offered the complete protection that they have with worms. It is possible that screening the yards against birds would assist. The concrete in the yards need not be over two and a half inches in thickness, since the weight of the attendant would likely be the heaviest weight going over it. It is quite important to have a smooth, well settled foundation for the concrete, since with that thickness any settling of the earth would cause cracks. The surface should be given a smooth finish to facilitate cleaning. Where water pressure is available, the yards may be left bare, otherwise a shallow covering of sand might be advisable. National Orange Show Adds New Building Construction work will start soon in San Bernardino on an annex to the largest exposition building in the West, the structure that houses the National Orange Show. The new addition will be 100 feet long by 80 feet wide, and will be constructed just east of the main building. Its architectural style will be the same as the present structure, which is 900 feet in length. The annex will house the by-products division, the model packing plant, the farm bureau and department of citrus education. The new improvement will cost many thousands of dollars and will make it possible to add to the fruit exhibit and feature displays for the forthcoming Eighteenth National Orange Show. Arrangement of the immense fruit department will add much to he beauty of the show and at the same time provide more room for the quarter of a million people who annually visit this show. "The National Orange Show has outgrown its new home in a short space of time and the improvements are necessary," said General Manager R. H. Mack. We have plans under way for enlarging the show next February, which will make it even more beautiful, more comprehensive and more complete than ever before." Hot Contest Over Convention City Interest continues to grow over the meeting of the Republican national committee which is to be held in Washington December 5, 6, and 7. On December 5 the executive committee will meet to consider Alaska, Wisconsin and certain other problems which were specifically referred to that body. The whole committee will come in on the sixth and remain in session over the seventh. The contest over the convention city is becoming sharper momentarily. William H. Crocker, the Republican national committeeman of California, who first proposed San Francisco, does not intend to lose anything by default. He arrived in Washington on Thanksgiving Day, with National Committeeman Ralph E. Williams of Oregon, and formally opened his campaign on the ground. Clarence C. Hamlin, national committeeman of Colorado, registered some days ahead of them, and N. C. Richards, national committeeman of the state of Washington, paid his respects to the president even earlier. Dr. E. B. Talbert Bielefeldt Headed for Moscow Mr. and Mrs. William Bielefeldt, Placentia ranch owners, have just received a letter from their son, Talbert, who was en route to Moscow, Russia, after two years spent "roughing it" in the Orient. Young Bielefeldt's letter gives a colorful account of his not too enjoyable ride on a railroad train from Pekin, China, to Harbin, Russia, and a number of pertinent observations made of the people and customs in the countries through which his travels have taken him. He left for China two years ago, after graduating from school, with his mission to assist in the organization of a peace movement among students of the various universities, to attend the peace conference at Geneva, and to make a general study of the people and their governments. He planned to teach American history and English to defray his expenses. He has so far financed himself all of the way. After some time spent in Japan and China, the Placentia man, thirsty for the experience it would bring, secured employment with a Chinese news agency in Pekin, many of the wire reports of events in distraught China coming, for more than a month, from his typewriter. Anxious to push on to Russia, he resigned this position and took train third class for Moscow. The contest over the convention city is becoming sharper momentarily. William H. Crocker, the Republican national committeeman of California, who first proposed San Francisco, does not intend to lose anything by default. He arrived in Washington on Thanksgiving Day, with National Committeeman Ralph E. Williams of Oregon, formally opened his campaign on the ground. Clarence C. Hamlin, national committeeman of Colorado, registered some days ahead of them, and N. C. Richards, national committeeman of the state of Washington, paid his respects to the president even earlier. Dr. E. D. Clement of Missouri, Joseph T. Kealling of Indiana, David W. Mulvane of Kansas, and others, have let it be known that they will be in the city in the near future. Formal applications have been filed by the cities of San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia and San Antonio. The selection will be made by a vote of the whole committee. INTEREST IN ARTICHOKES The Jerusalem artichoke is one of the few plants native to America which have practically neglected here but have gained wider favor abroad. In France it has been planted more extensively on light soils and even under these conditions has averaged yields of more than five tons of tubers to the acre. Not enough information is at hand to attempt any estimate of what would be a fair average yield under American conditions, but it seems likely that on good agricultural soils it would be higher than in France. Present interest in the Jerusalem artichoke in this country arises from the belief that it may prove desirable as a source of inulin and levulose, which have the same general relation to each other as starch and cane sugar. Inulin and levulose are considered as foods for diabetics. The raisin industry is the most important in the production of dried fruit. In 1922 the crop amounted to 290,000 tons. Public Ownership Fails at Long Beach Gross Mismanagement Makes Experiment Costly One The people of Long Beach have discovered that municipal ownership of public utilities is not the success it was supposed to be when, four years ago, the citizens voted a $3,000,000 bond issue for purchase of the gas system. An unlimited supply of natural gas at 50 cents per 1000 cubic feet for domestic consumption was the promise held forth to the voters, but a report submitted last week to the city manager by Joseph M. Berkley, gas consulting engineer, will be the swan song of 50-cent gas in Long Beach if adopted. Berkley, in his report, urges that the prevailing rate be raised to $1 per 1000 cubic feet for the first 1000 feet and 80 cents per 1000 for the next 4000 feet. Passage of an emergency ordinance to become effective December 1, for establishment of the proposed new gas rate is urged in the report. "I feel that in introducing this report it is only fair to myself as an engineer to say that in all my experience I have never seen a gas department that has been so mishandled as this department of your city has been. If it were privately owned, it would have been sold by the sheriff long ago." Mr. Berkley's letter accompanying the report read. In recommending an increase in rates, the report recommends that a number of steps be taken to rehabilitate the city gas department. One of these is to the effect that the city should obtain as soon as possible the services of a highly-trained gas executive who has had actual experience in California natural gas practice. Berkley, who was employed by the new administration to make a thorough survey and study of the gas department, scores the former management of the department in no uncertain terms and takes up at length the claim that millions of cubic feet of gas were blown into the air during the past summer because of lack of storage space. "All I can say on this subject is that it is too pliful to try to explain and manager. Ignorance of facts is no excuse in this case," Berkley's report states. "If Long Beach is unwilling to raise the rates and following the recommended course to rehabilitate the department, it would be better to sell the system to a private corporation," Mr. Berkley told the city council when he submitted his report. Petitioners to Judge Denounced by Allen That petitioners directed to a judge asking either probation or prison terms for supposed criminals, border on an attempt to coerce the court, and that citations for contempt will issue if more such requests are made, was declared by Superior Judge James L. Allen. The large number of such petitions presented in the case of Harold Via, 27, convicted poultry thief, led Judge Allen to issue this warning when Via was up for sentence. The poultry growers of this county are said to have been represented in large numbers in requests that Via be given a prison sentence. The procedure which should be taken in such matters, he pointed out, is to take the situation up with the probation officer, whose duty it is to make recommendations based on the facts he discovers. Judge Allen stated that there had been cases in which similar petitions had resulted in citations for contempt of court. It is his duty, he pointed out, to decide the case on its merits and he should not be subjected to an attempt to influence his decision through petitions. Christian Science Lecture Over Radio Residents of Anaheim will have an opportunity to hear an authorized lecture on Christian Science on Wednesday, December 7th, at 12:10 p.m., when the Christian Science lecture of James G. Rowell, C.S., of Kansas City, Mo., is to be broadcast over radio station KFI (640 kc.) from Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Los Angeles. Mr. Rowell is a member of the Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Hi-Brown Belles In Stage Play 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' Slated for 3 Days at United Theatre For the first time on the Pacific coast a screen version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's immortal novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," filmed as the book reads and with each and every detail, no matter how minor, strictly adhered to, will be offered at the United Theatre Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, with Saturday mutinee. A prologue, brief but strictly atmospheric, will serve to introduce this photodrama unusual, in which Irving Cummings, one of celluloid's most sterling actors, plays a stellar role in addition to directing the same, while "Plantation Days," on the stage, offered by the Dixie Revue, comprising 20 colored performers of renown. Christian Science Lecture Over Radio Residents of Anaheim will have an opportunity to hear an authorized lecture on Christian Science on Wednesday, December 7th, at 12:10 p.m., when the Christian Science lecture of James G. Rowell, C.S., of Kansas City, Mo., is to be broadcast over radio station KFI (640 kc) from Third Church of Christ, Scientist, Los Angeles. Mr. Rowell is a member of the Board of Lectureship of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass. In Japan individual citrus trees are known which, according to records, are at least 300 years old and have changed little in that time. Healthful Heat, Instantly! 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