anaheim-gazette 1931-05-28

Walnut Growers Studying Costs Production in Orange County Groves Last Year Cost 19.3 Cents a Pound LABOR WAS LARGEST ITEM Reduction of Expenses Said to Be Necessary A meeting of walnut growers of Orange county was held at the Farm Advisor's office last week to review the costs of various orchard operations that are required in the production of walnuts in this area. The 1930 cost figures compiled by Farm Advisor Harold E. Wahlberg from detailed data submitted by a representative group of walnut growers in Orange county revealed that it costs on the average of $222.23 per acre a year to produce walnuts. This total includes labor at $56.08, material at $22.33, cash overhead at $37.37 (taxes, insurance, etc.), and interest and depreciation amounting to $106.45. Expressed in cost per pound it figures 19.3 cents. Year of Light Yields The summary of the cost study covering the business of 1930 indicates that the 1930 crop year was one of comparatively light yields, influenced to some extent by delayed dormancy and foliation and 1148 pounds per acre were produced compared with 1930 pounds in 1929. Factors affecting yield were variety, amount of irrigation, season of irrigation, age of trees and pest control. The percentage of Diamonds varied from 17.6% in Seedlings to 94.5% in the Buds. The percent merchantable nuts varied from 68.5%. The reasons for low quality should be determined and causes remedied. The principal factors affecting quality appear to be... the 1930 crop year was one of comparatively light yields, influenced to some extent by delayed dormancy and foliation and 1148 pounds per acre were produced compared with 1930 pounds in 1929. Factors affecting yield were variety, amount of irrigation, season of irrigation, age of trees and pest control. The percentage of Diamonds varied from 17.6% in Seedlings to 94.5% in the Buds. The percent merchantable nuts varied from 68.5%. The reasons for low quality should be determined and causes remedied. The principal factors affecting quality appear to be variety, season of water application, pest control, age of trees, and soils. Amounts of Water The amounts of water used in these orchards during the year ranged from 14 acre inches to 43 acre inches. The higher profit group used more water (29.4 acre inches) than the lower profit group (20.7 acre inches). The higher yielding group also used more water and more consistently during the winter, spring and summer seasons than did the lower yielding group. In analyzing quality production it was found that 100% of the orchards reporting highest quality nuts irrigated during the winter season, while only 75% of the orchards reporting lower quality irrigated in the winter. Cultivation costs in 1930 ranged from $7.90 to $60 an acre. Orange county cultivation costs are generally too high. They average $16.34 per acre as compared with $8.77 per acre in Los Angeles county and $9.25 per acre in San Bernardino county. Orchards reporting low cultivation costs had better net income, better yields, and practically equal quality to the orchards reporting high cultivation costs. There is room for saving in this item. Cost of Pest Control The higher yielding orchards and the orchard reporting higher quality nuts showed results from higher pest control costs. The orchards reporting pest control averaged 1.18 cents better price a pound and greater returns an acre than the orchards that did not spray or dust. Harvesting costs ranged from $1.37 to $3.40 per hundredweight. Several orchards having equal yields reported as much as 100 percent difference in harvesting costs. Better quality of nuts is effected by prompt harvesting methods but should not unduly increase costs. Operating Expenses Too High Reduction of operating expenses without affecting quality and yield is an economic necessity in the walnut industry of this area. Labor costs in 1930 ranged from $27.63 to $90.35 an acre in the orchards of this study. Material costs varied from $5.30 to $45.78 an acre. Cash overhead including insurance and taxes, principally, varied from $9.09 to $95.05 an acre. This item cannot be materially changed. A study of labor and material costs in some orchards should lead to lower and more efficient expenditures. Towering more than a fifth again higher than Los Angeles' tallest building, the city hall, Hoover Dam, in Boulder Canyon on the Colorado River, will loom to a height of 584 feet above the stream's water level, standing as a owlwark against drought for the Metropolitan Water District's 14 cities on the Southern California Coastal plain. In fact, for purposes of comparison, the city hall might be placed beside the visible portion of the dam and there would r main almost enough distance between the spire of the hall and the rim of the dam for the placement of any of Los Angeles' tallest buildings, erected under the 150-foot height-limit ordinance. WHEAT Ray Long, editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine, who has just returned from Russia, in a speech the other day predicted that we would never see wheat again at as high as a dollar a bushel. Wheat's importance in the economic scheme of things is due to the fact that it is cheaply stored and shipped and can be kept over from season to season. When the United States was still a pioneer nation and the great wheat areas of Russia, South America and Australia were still undeveloped, wheat was a profitable crop in this country. Today it is far from being our most important crop. Minnesota, once the greatest flour milling state, and once the foremost wheat producer, raised $21,000,000 worth of wheat in 1929, a fairly normal year, but sold $125,000,000 worth of butter. The demand for dairy, hog and poultry products is growing; that for wheat is diminishing. If I were a wheat farmer I would put my land into some other kind of crops or sell it and pocket cause they reach the limits that does not read the paper cannot discriminate between wrong, and the gunman, shown as a criminal meeting seems like a hero to many. ELECTRIFICATION One of my farmer neighbors Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts Hugh Smiley of Great Bay making a test of all of the electricity on the farm. Major Smiley's hens work hours in winter as they do because the hen-houses are electricity. Now he has intric sun lamps in the coarse where his prize herd of hens housed, in order to give them benefit of the ultra-violet winter, as well as in the sun. It may take several years before the exact value electrification is determined Major Smiley's belief that er is not only cheaper than but more efficient, and that electric lights of various types his hens lay better, his coarse milk and keeps his better health. GRAFT According to the trade pany Engineering and Construction companies manufacturing machinery and materials to county commissioners and ing control of highway work certain types of roads and Operating Expenses Too High Reduction of operating expenses without affecting quality and yield is an economic necessity in the walnut industry of this area. Labor costs in 1930 ranged from $27.63 to $90.35 an acre in the orchards of this study. Material costs varied from $5.30 to $45.78 an acre. Cash overhead including insurance and taxes, principally, varied from $9.09 to $95.05 an acre. This item cannot be materially changed. A study of labor and material costs in some orchards should lead to lower and more efficient expenditures. Order of DeMolay Installs Officers Templar chapter of the Order of DeMolay held public installation of officers, Monday night, the installing team being from Long Beach. A dance followed the installation. William Puffer was installed as master councilor, Emil Blankmeyer as senior councilor, and James Stewart as junior councilor; Roland Wood, senior deacon; Donald Galser, junior deacon; William Sylvester, senior steward; Ed Launder, junior steward; Buster Jones, chaplain; Carlton Russell, marshal; Russell Fitzpatrick, first preceptor; Ralph McNurlin, second preceptor; Stark Van Wagner, third preceptor; Harold Benson, fourth preceptor; Edgar Loetch, fifth preceptor; Marvin Horner, sixth preceptor; Arthur Saviers, seventh preceptor, and Charles Comstock, sentinel. Clifford Brown is the retiring master councilor. DEATH OF MRS. HAZLETT Mrs. John Hazlett died at the family home, 518 South Resh street, Sunday evening, after illness of a week. She was 62 years of age, a native of Illinois, and had lived in California for 13 years. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church. She is survived by her husband, four daughters, two sons, her mother and five brothers and a sister, all except Mr. Hazlett, living away from Anaheim. The funeral services were held from the Hilgonfeld funeral home, yesterday afternoon, the Rev. Virgil K. Ledbetter officiating. Burial was in Loma Vista cemetery, English Apple Queen Patricia D Morton, of Winchester Eng., came over to queen it at the Shenandoah Valley apple festival, at Winchester, Va. New Kiwanis Heal William G. Harris, Los banker and executive of the N Thrift Corporation, gains ad honor. To Equal Height of L. A. Wall Plus 2 Other Buildings METROPOLITAN AQUEDUCT 1,000 acre feet of water, to insure regular supply for 14 cities of the will build a 266-mile aqueduct from the Colorado river to the Coastal Plain. Such comparisons, striking as they are, do not give an adequate idea of the size of the entirety of the dam, tric plants which are to develop approximately 1,000,000 horsepower of energy. Widows of Two Pres Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Sr., and Mrs. Th. of Grover Cleveland, and Mrs. Truman New convention of the Needlework Guild of America the new president. LIONS INSTALL OFFICERS The Anaheim Lions installed officers at the luncheon last Friday, the ceremonies being conducted by Dr. Elliott V. Rowland, deputy district governor, of Santa Ana, O. E. Hensen is the new president; Verne Cruzen, secretary; Evan Alsip, Leo Sheridan, Louis Hoskins, Frank Tausch and Charles Pearson, directors. Mr. Hansen made the following appointments: A. P. M. Brown, lion trainer; Carl Monohan, tall Prepare For Your Out-of-Town Guests —during the Orange Show New Coil Spring Day Beds, Complete with $20. New $6. Coil $5. to $8.50 Springs, —SPECIAL— Such comparisons, striking as they are, do not give an adequate idea of the size of the entirety of the dam, greatest structure of its kind ever to be reared by man. Below the water level, hidden beneath the stream, will be another 143 feet of massive concrete and stone. If Hoover Dam were to be built out on a prairie away from water, where all of it could be seen, it would be as tall as the city hall with two height-limit structures piled upon its top. In the illustration above is an artist's conception of how the titanic structure will look when finished. The buildings below the dam and on the canyon wall are huge hydro-electric plants which are to develop approximately 1,000,000 horsepower of energy. Behind the massive barrier will be impounded 30,500,000 acre feet of water—a lake 110 miles long. To cities that are to be served by the 266-mile Colorado River aqueduct of the Metropolitan Water District, the dam is of two-fold importance—first, because that great lake will insure a regular, sufficient flow of water down the river to Parker, where the aqueduct's intake is to be, and second, because the electric energy developed there will make possible the lifting of Southern California's water over hills on the course of the great conduit. use they reach the immature mind does not read the papers. Children cannot discriminate between right and wrong, and the gunman, even though own as a criminal meeting a bad end, emits like a hero to many of them. LECTRIFICATION One of my farmer neighbors in the Yorkshire Hills of Massachusetts, Major High Smiley of Great Barrington, is taking a test of all of the possibilities electricity on the farm. Major Smiley's hens work as long hours in winter as they do in summer, cause the hen-houses are lighted by electricity. Now he has installed elec- sun lamps in the concrete barn here his prize herd of Holsteins is used, in order to give the cattle the benefit of the ultra-violet rays in the winter, as well as in the summer. It may take several years of experience before the exact value of farm electrification is determined, but it is Major Smiley's belief that electric pow- is not only cheaper than man power but more efficient, and that the use of electric lights of various types makes hens lay better, his cows produce more milk and keeps his live stock in better health. RAFT According to the trade paper "Highway Engineering and Contractor," millions of dollars are expended annually companies manufacturing highway machinery and materials to influence county commissioners and others hav- control of highway work to select certain types of roads and pavements officials have received from paving contractors. MOLASSES When I was a boy in New England it was still the custom in almost all rural families, and probably in the cities as well, to dose all the children for days every spring with liberal table-spoonfuls of a mixture of sulphur and molasses. For a generation or so medical men have laughed at the old "spring tonic" idea. Now medical science has discovered that this is another of the so-called folk myths that has a solid basis of truth back of it. Our grandparents were wrong in thinking that sulphur was the essential part of the mixture, but they were right in the idea that "brimstone and treacle" had a tonic effect. It was the iron in the molasses that did it, according to Dr. Walter H. Eddy. Now we keep our children out-of-doors in the sunshine as much as possible, winter and summer, and those who can afford it expose them to ultraviolet rays generated by electricity, so that the need of a spring tonic is not as great as it was. And we have developed pleasanter ways of taking iron into the system when we do need it. 44-Hour Week In U.S. Mail Service The postmasters of Orange county are considering plans for placing in operation the 44-hour week which was authorized by Congress and which becomes effective on July 1. According to the trade paper "Highway Engineering and Contractor," millions of dollars are expended annually on companies manufacturing highway machinery and materials to influence county commissioners and others having control of highway work to select certain types of roads and pavements for construction or maintenance machinery and materials. Such payments to public officials are guarded in some business circles as lawful graft." They are dishonest because such bribes are added to the cost of the job and come out of the pockets of taxpayers, and also because they pay and often do result in a poor job, which will soon have to be done over again—again at the taxpayers' expense. It would be interesting if some live newspaper in every county in the United States should start an inquiry as to how much "lawful graft" its local postmasters of Orange county are considering plans for placing in operation the 44-hour week which was authorized by Congress and which becomes effective on July 1. To start the new plans, the postmasters are confronted with the problem of re-arranging their schedules so that mail service will not be curtailed on Saturdays, despite a reduction of employees due to the shortened week. The new schedule affects all first and second-class postoffices. The postmasters of the county discussed the subject at their recent meeting in Santa Ana, and it will be taken up again next week by the postmasters of Anaheim, Orange, Santa Ana and Fullerton. New Kiwanis Head William G. Harris, Los Angeles meritorious executive of the Nationalift Corporation, gains additional In Foreign Countries Lord Ampthill, Pro Grand Master of English Freemasons, attended the 150th anniversary of the New York Grand Lodge. idows of Two Presidents Roosevelt, Sr., and Mrs. Thomas J. Preston, Jr., widow and Mrs. Truman Newberry were snapped at the bedlework Guild of America, of which Mrs. Preston is OFFICERS installed officers friday, the ceredial by Dr. Elliott strict governor, onsen is the new zen, secretary; man, Louis Hosd Charles Pearunsen made the s; A. P. M. er Monohan, tall twister; Reginald Taylor, song leader; Ross Phegley, reporter; Miss Hazel Filer, pianist. BAYER ASPIRIN is always SAFE BEWARE OF IMITATIONS BayerTablets Aspirin Genuine Demand FIRE IN BORTH HOME Damage amounting to about $1,000 was caused by fire in the home of Frank Borth, 707 West Broadway, Monday. 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Growers Institute Daily lectures on citrus, avocados and general agriculture. Packing Contest The fastest and most furious contest of them all. For world's championship. Model Packing Plant See how the big packing houses handle citrus fruits. Transportation Low priced special rates, including admission to show, on Motor Transit lines—see your agent. Family Tickets Save 50c. On sale at schools, chamber of commerce, newspaper offices... $1 ANAHEIM NE 4 to 14 Orange County Invites the World to View the Wonders of the Golden Days of Montezuma—