anaheim-gazette 1935-03-28

Rotary Meet To Feature Pageant Written by Elizabeth Woodbridge Morris and being produced by students of the Compton Junior college, a pageant entitled "The Summoning of Nations," will be presented the opening day of the Second district conference Rotary International, in Santa Monica, May 13, 14, 15. With Miss Myra Jane McClung, daughter of Fred McClung, district conference chairman, portraying the role of "The Spirit of History," the pageant, in which more than 200 players will appear, and for which a symphonic orchestra will furnish music, will review the contributions of all nations to the history of the world, particularly in culture, the arts, music, literature. The pageant was written under the auspices of the League of Nations, according to McClung, and the singing of "The Hymn of Nations" by entire cast and audience provides a thrilling finale. This hymn, the lyrics of which were written by Josephine Daskam Bacon, is adapted from music by Beethoven. On the mammoth stage of the new municipal auditorium on the Santa Monica pier, with its elaborate scenic and lighting equipment, the pageant, McClung opines, will be one of the most impressive spectacles ever presented at any Rotary convention anywhere. Miss McClung in the pivotal characterization, holds a master's degree from the U.S.C. school of speech, and all principals have been selected for their special talent and qualifications. The pageant, as will all Rotary gatherings during the three-day meet, will be open to women and children, in fact, McClung urges all ages of both sexes to witness it. 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And when you buy, be sure that you get the real BAYER Aspirin Tablets. They dissolve (disintegrate) almost instantly. And thus work almost instantly when you take them. And for a gargle, Genuine Bayer Aspirin Tablets disintegrate with speed and completeness, leaving no irritating particles or grittiness. BAYER Aspirin prices have been decisively reduced on all sizes, so there's no point now in accepting other than the real Bayer article you want. NOW 15¢ PRICES on Genuine Bayer Aspirin Radically Reduced on All Sizes POVERTY PLOWS A STRAIGHT FURROW BY HARRY E. REDDICK, REGIONAL DIRECTOR U.S. SOILEROSION SERVICE OF CALIFORNIA, AND CHAS. D. JARRETT Right off let us try to justify that title by more than the mere fact that it sounds good from a literary or philosophical point of view. Did you know that straight-row farmers are relatively scarce in this world, except here in the United States, where there are far too many of them, especially in the rolling plains sections of the country. This thing of lining out the day's plowing so that the third trip will bring you near the barn just as the dinner bell rings, is not so hot as good farming goes. More years ago than we like to admit we used to do a bit of free and easy wandering over the deserted farms of northern France, and though we were looking for souvenirs and not studying agriculture, still we were impressed by the odd shapes of the little rock walled fields we crossed. We supposed at the time that the reason for their size and shape dated far back to feudal days when haughty lords ruled the fields from their moated castles, but now looking back thru sixteen years we see these tiny plots of the frugal French peasants in a new light, and the manure piles in the village courtyards take on a new meaning, if not a new fragrance. The French take much more out of every acre of land than we do, they have to exist answer is, "Yes," with reservations. It is physically possible to practice contour farming on any piece of land, but farmers don't remain farmers long, but become other farmers' hired hands, if they tackle everything that looks good on paper and is physically possible. Is it practical from a dollars and cents angle? We believe it is in most cases, and the remainder of the article will be devoted to discussing contour farming with the limits of the pocket book in mind. If orchard is already set on the square or rectangle running up and down the slope, then the problem of soil saving and water conservation is a difficult one. If your trees are close set and full grown there is little that can be accomplished by attempting to contour or terrace. Most practical thing one can do in a case like that is plant heavy cover crops early and disc them under late. Our rains out here in California usually start in late September and continue intermittently until March. Leaving the cover crop on until March unquestionably does sap a bit of the moisture out of the land, but its being there to slow up the runoff will in most instances more than compensate for the moisture the plants take out of the soil. Burglars Busy Around Orange The police of Orange have been busy this week checking up on a series of burglaries that were reported to them last Friday which resulted in the loss by Orange residents of several dollars. Mrs. Mary Isaacs of 222½ North Shaffer street reported the theft of $1.55 from a purse taken from her home. Neighbors who saw a man enter and leave the house reported he was wearing a black sweater and black felt hat, and was driving a tan colored automobile with red stripe and red wheels. From the home of Miss Margaret Gregg, Maple and Center streets, the burglar took a purse containing $6 in tour. Broadbased terraces should be spaced according to the type of soil and the slope of the land. Generally they should be from fifty to one hundred feet apart on land that has a slope of ten per cent, and may be as far as one hundred and seventy-five feet apart where the slope does not exceed two per cent. A broad-based terrace is constructed with a road grader or similar implement, and should be approximately thirty feet across at the base, and twenty inches in height. These terraces are not built on a level grade, but are given a fall of from one half inch to as high as six inches per hundred feet of length, starting at the high end and increasing in per cent of grade as the terrace grows longer. Broad-based terraces are being used very extensively throughout the South, and their value as soil-holding agents has been proven beyond question. But they generally are not adapted to steep slopes unless stabilized with vegetation. Bench terraces, especially where used on irrigated land, are not recommended pressed by the odd shapes of the little rock walled fields we crossed. We supposed at the time that the reason for their size and shape dated far back to feudal days when haughty lords ruled the fields from their moated castles, but now looking back thru sixteen years we see these tiny plots of the frugal French peasants in a new light, and the manure plies in the village courtyards take on a new meaning, if not a new fragrance. The French take much more out of every acre of land than we do—they have to exist and meet the levies of the national war machine that seems a European heritage. Contour farming is not preached in France, nor in Germany, nor in China, but it is one of necessity and long standing where mere survival demands that the land must produce a maximum yield year after year, through centuries. Contour farming in California is important for a reason unheard of in France. That is moisture conservation. Here we have a situation that is both convenient and unfortunate, depending on whether you are planning a Sunday picnic in July or trying to get the pods on your bean stalks to grow plump and pickable. Back East the folks carry umbrellas to their summer celebrations and do all their worrying about whether it will be a sunny day for the sack races or not, but out here we go in our shirt sleeves, safe in the knowledge that although there may be an earthquake, there most certainly will not be a shower. If we insist on worrying about something, however, we car always think of the crops, and the cost of the next irrigation. Water is of vital importance to the farmer in California, and any suggestion that will help save it must be important to those whose success depends on growing plants or trees. The control of soil erosion is undoubtedly be accomplished by attempting to contour or terrace. Most practical thing one can do in a case like that is plant heavy cover crops early and disc them under late. Our rains out here in California usually start in late September and continue intermittently until March. Leaving the cover crop on until March unquestionably does sap a bit of the moisture out of the land, but its being there to slow up the runoff will in most instances more than compensate for the moisture the plants take out of the soil. If you are farming seasonal crops that have to be renewed each year, or planning on planting a new orchard, then there's no valid reason why contouring can't be made a paying investment. Your first problem is the establishment of the contour lines, which whistles like surveying, and is, but don't let the thought scare you. A farm level can be bought for twenty dollars new, or borrowed for a lot less than that. An hour studying Farmers' Bulletin No. 1669 will give you enough knowledge of the subject to get along with, or, better yet, sick that son who is waiting thru second year math in high school onto the job. He'll find his geometry problems jumping off the printed page and onto the hillside, and the math. prof. will be delighted with his new interest in a subject that was previously no more than a maze of bisecting angles. Starting the contour survey, always begin near the highest point on the tract to be surveyed. If that point happens to be in the approximate center of the piece, then it's all the better, because then you can run your contour lines both ways. If it is on one side of your field your problem is to run a level line staked at fifty foot intervals, across to the other side. That line is the one you will follow when you plow, plant or subsoll. Succeeding contour lines should be established at intervals given a fall of from one half inch to as high as six inches per hundred feet of length, starting at the high end and increasing in per cent of grade as the terrace grows longer. Broad-based terraces are being used very extensively throughout the South, and their value as soil-holding agents has been proven beyond question. But they generally are not adapted to steep slopes unless stabilized with vegetation. Bench terraces, especially where used on irrigated land, are not recommended unless laid out by competent farm engineers. They are used in California and have been used in Europe and South America for centuries on extreme slopes. The cost of building and maintenance is high in comparison to other methods and they are rarely used except in localities where the high value of the crops justifies the expense. Ordinarily, slopes steep enough to demand bench terraces should be planted to grass or used for grazing purposes, except in districts where the climatic conditions favor citrus culture, or other highly remunerative crops. Mr. Reddick's next article will be devoted to a close study of bench terraces, a phase of agricultural engineering that he has specialized in for many years. Water is of vital importance to the farmer in California, and any suggestion that will help save it must be important to those whose success depends on growing plants or trees. The control of soil erosion is undoubtedly the most practical method of conserving the moisture in the land that has yet been devised, and the success of the method depends almost entirely on the application of contour farming in cultivation. Contour farming does, in a practical sense, the same thing that would be accomplished if you could reduce your eight acres to a plot one inch square, and then level it off with the blade of your pocket knife. You can't afford to level that side hill, or knock the dome off that knoll in the center of your field. That would be a job for a thousand dump trucks, a dozen steam shovels, and a few good sons of Erin for gang pushers; but contour farming does that, from a farmer's point of view, and it can be done for a cost that will surprise you. Will the contouring of your land be worth what it will cost you? What does it cost you for "juice" in one irrigation? Okeh, now get this! Experiments, not on a back yard plot, but on large fields, have proven that in the same rain on the same kind of soil, just six times as much water runs off of a 3-per cent slope as from level land, such as occurs in extensive areas. Where does all that other rain water go? Water either runs off the land, or it doesn't. If it runs off it takes some of your soil along for company, and if it stays it sinks into the ground to give the crop roots a drink now and later on. There's our argument of contouring, or from the standpoint of cultivation, reducing your farm to an approximately level plain. Can you do it on your farm? The starting the contour survey, always begin near the highest point on the tract to be surveyed. If that point happens to be in the approximate center of the piece, then it's all the better, because then you can run your contour lines both ways. If it is on one side of your field your problem is to run a level line staked at fifty foot intervals, across to the other side. That line is the one you will follow when you plow, plant or subsoll. Succeeding contour lines should be established at intervals on down the side of the hill and used as guides by which to do your cultivating or subsolling. After a year or two these lines will be plainly marked and there will be no further need of trying to protect the guide stakes. That is the procedure when you only intend to plow and subsoll on the contour. A more efficient method of holding the water on your land than the one above is by strip cropping on the contour, with soil and water holding plants. A strip crop is a strip of clover, hay, grass, or other close-growing vegetation varying in width from ten to twenty feet or more, and extending on a contour line entirely across the field. It catches the rain that runs down from the open crops planted above and allows the water to spread out and seep into the ground, leaving its burden of soil in the grass instead of carrying it on down into the gully or to the lower side of the field where it is not needed. How does one determine where to place the first strip of crop, and at what intervals? This will vary a good deal to the nature of the soil and the slope of the land, but a good practical rule to follow is: go out on your hillside after a rain and walk towards the highest point. Somewhere below the highest elevation you will see where the first signs of erosion appear. Measure the distance from that point to the top of the hill, and that will give you a fair idea of how far apart your strips should be. The third method of contour farming, and a still more efficient system, is by building broad-base terraces on the con- Royal Arch Masons To Meet Santa Ana The Royal Arch Masons will gather in the Masonic Temple in Santa Ana next Saturday night for a 6 o'clock dinner following with a ceremonial at which the Most Excellent degree will be conferred by the Most High Grand Priest of the Grand Chapter, who will be present, along with other grand officers. The degree will be conferred in long form, just as it is conferred on top of Mt. Helix each July and with the same cast. 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