California News Briefs Recap From Statewide Items
Imbedded in fossil rock in Calistoga a million-year-old forest left leaf impressions, uncovered by UC scientists Ralph Chaney and Willis Jepson. Watsonville Kiwanis gave apples to over 50,000 travelers during National Apple Week. Ford’s harbor plant in the LA-Long Beach corridor advances. Jackson City Band marks a golden jubilee. California press meeting in San Francisco, and windy weather damage near Victor. County tax and public works items across Plumas to San Mateo noted, with building permits in October 1926 and upcoming hotel and high school projects. Multiple local developments include fire at San Gabriel plant, dam work at Lake Fordyce, and road and ferry tariff changes. West Van Nuys rapid growth, Modoc rabbits drives, and heavy eastbound auto tourism anticipated for California. Boyes Springs awards construction of a large Spanish-style hotel.
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Calistoga Petrified Forest
University of California
Ralph Chaney
Willis Jepson
Botany Department
Great Forest
Watsonville
Grant Cornell
Ford Motor Company
Harbor
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Ford
Pacific Coast
Detroit
Great Detroit Automobile Concern
Jackson City
Jackson
Amador County
Jackson Women’s Band
Jackson City Band
Wallace Kay
California Press Association
San Francisco
Friend W. Richardson
Henry Duffy
Victor
Lodi
John Gigler
Plumas County
Upland Woman's Club
Upland
Union High School
Glendora
Harriett S. Lee
California
Atascadero
Davis Union High School
Davis
Solano County
California Citrus Products Company
San Gabriel
San Francisco County Medical Society
Bay City Medical Organization
Frank C. Jordan
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Lake Fordyce
Yolo
Sutter County
Orange County
Alameda High School
Board of Education
William G. Paden
Sacramento
Martinez-Benecia
Railroad Commission
Martinez
Benecia
Rodeo-Vallejo
Vallejo
Rodeo
San Fernando Valley
West van Nuys
van Nuys
Modoc County
Cedarville
San Bernardino County
John P. Coy
Daggett Quarantine
Sonoma Properties Company
Boyes Springs
Sonoma County
California citrus industry reports record crop sales in 1925 26
The California citrus industry, during the 1925-26 season, marketed its largest crop with the greatest returns to the state despite widespread production of other fruits. The California Fruit Growers' Exchange noted aggress ive sales and advertising as key factors. Exchange returns show the California citrus corp at $98,023,031 f. o. b. California, with delivered carload value of $135,218,641 and freight and refrigeration costs of $37,195,610.
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California
Dezell
California Fruit Growers’ Exchange
California Citrus Corp
Experiment grows asparagus at Westmoreland this year
An experiment in growing asparagus is being tried at Westmoreland this year. Previously regarded as a spring crop after early cuttings, tops were not cut until frost. This season on several ranches the grass was topped early, producing a strong fall sprout growth now being harvested. A satisfactory return is anticipated.
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Westmoreland
Cotton picking accelerates in Tulare and South San Joaquin counties
harvest proceeds rapidly with several thousand acres remaining to be harvested. Most of the crop expected to be out of the fields before rains could damage it. Last season some cotton was damaged by rain as lint collects dirt and loses value despite rain not heavily injuring the fiber.
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Tulare
San Joaquin Vally
Early Refrigeration Urges For Fresh Green Asparagus
Research at the State College of Agriculture recommends bunching packing and refrigeration immediately after cutting. Asparagus deteriorates quickly, loses sugar and gains fiber even near freezing, so the product should reach consumers promptly.
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State College of Agriculture
Walnut crop in San Fernando valley holds steady
Walnut production in the San Fernando valley stays near 1925 levels with about 800 acres bearing this season and an estimated 300 tons of nuts. Subdivision reduced some groves, but new plantings reaching maturity each year compensate for losses.
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San Fernando Valley
Sun Maid chief cites Muscat raisin syrup as key to gains
Ralph P. Merritt president of the Sun Maid Raisin Growers Association declared that development of specialty products, notably the Muscat raisin syrup, was largely responsible for the association's marketing success during the past year. He spoke while delivering the annual report to Turlock grape and raisin men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph P. Merritt
Sun Maid Raisin Growers’ Association
Merritt
Walnut packing house winds down for season at San Juan Capistrano
Manager H. Vander Leck says the San Juan Capistrano walnut packing house is nearly closed for the season as all nuts have arrived from the groves. Bleaching drums and grading machines are finishing up, and 1926 crop is expected to rank among the county's best in walnut history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Vander Leck
San Juan Capistrano
Mr. Vander Leck
Poultry Industry Tour Highlights Sacramento County Trade
Sacramento county poultry and egg producers generate about 1.5 million dollars annually. Twenty five bankers and as many industry stakeholders toured Rio Linda, the chief poultry district, which handles 55 percent of the county’s business.
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Sacramento County
Sacramento
Rio Linda
Olive pack nears completion in Oroville district
In Oroville and surrounding Butte district the 1926 olive harvest nears end with 95 percent of the crop packed at the California Packing Corporation plant in Palermo. The remaining olives are expected to reach warehouses within a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oroville
Butte
California Packing Corporation
Palermo
Wool storage in California drops before spring shear
California markets hold six million pounds of wool but shipping facilities expect a material reduction before spring shearing. The San Joaquin Valley Wool Growers Association based in Fresno issued the statement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
San Joaquin Valley Wool Growers’ Association
Fresno
Green weevil threat to barley linked to poison plan
Harold Crane, assistant horticultural commissioner of Yuba county, states a discovery about using strychnine to poison squirrels in barley. The claim suggests a method to deter pests but raises safety and ethics concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Crane
Yuba County
San Bernardino High School Forms Junior Farm Center
About 125 boys and girls in the agricultural department organize a junior farm center. Members show interest in baby beef, poultry, rabbit, pig raising, and field crops as core club work.
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Agricultural Department
The
San Bernardino High School
Valencia Growers Reap Rewards as Prices Rally Near Redlands
Valencia growers around Redlands who held fruit in October are enjoying higher prices and good returns. After a demoralized summer, a prompt shipment check restored the market satisfactorily for orchardists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valencia
Redlands
Growers Form Panel at Sonoma Napa Apple Conference
At the Sonoma and Napa apple growers conference in Sebastopol a sixteen member committee was named to organize marketing efforts and report to a later general gathering of orchardists.
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Sonoma County
Napa County
Sebastopol
Brawley Mid-Winter Fair Prep Nears Opening
Elaborate preparations are under way for the Mid-Winter Fair to be held in Brawley from December 1 to 5. While much of the country will be snowed under, fair exhibitors in Brawley will display green crops fresh from fields, vegetables, and fruits.
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Brawley
United States
Oroville Grower Praises Local Oranges and Olives
W P Hammon, a leading Oroville orange grower, returns from two months in the east and reports the district producing the best quality oranges ever grown. He also expresses strong optimism about this year's olive crop in the Oroville district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oroville
W. P. Hammon
Hammon
Atascadero Fruit Exchange Expands Dried Fruit Output
The Atascadero Fruit Exchange reports steady drying of apricots pears peaches prunes and apples for over a month. Prunes and apples arrive for dehydration at ten to fifteen tons daily. The dried fruit market has improved and fair prices are expected.
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Atascadero
Diet for Mc Farland Turkeys Aids 100 Birds Thrive
Mrs Rufus Wiley of the Mc Farland district prescribes rolled oats clabbered milk and growing alfalfa for her young turkeys. The 100 fine birds thrive on this regimen. For fifty hours after hatching no feed is given, then milk and oats are provided and the poults roam with their mothers.
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Rufus Wiley
McFarland
Porterville Citrus Association to Build Packing House
A modern 30000 packing house with 15000 dollars of equipment will be erected by the Porterville Citrus Association to replace the older frame building. Plans were approved at a recent meeting, but construction will not begin until the end of the current year.
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Porterville Citrus Association
Ventura truck crop group tests cooperative marketing plan
The Ventura County Farm Bureau truck crop committee met to discuss cooperative marketing. A second meeting will be held soon to explore forming a Ventura marketing association to handle the coming year's truck crops.
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Ventura County Farm Bureau
Ventura
Ventura Marketing Association
Woodland High students de horn 200 stock at Esparto ranch
Five Woodland High School agricultural class students de horned 200 head of stock on John Stephens ranch near Esparto in about an hour. They used a school made electric prodding iron and a school made chute, with all tools traced to the school agricultural and vocational education department.
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Woodland High School
John Stephens
Esparto
Rubber cultivation eyed for Tulare County lands
Frank H. Brann, Tulare county horticulturist, reports rubber could be grown on semiarid lands as he follows San Diego county experiments. A large rubber firm plans 7000 acres of test units across California to push local rubber production.
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Tulare
Frank H. Brann
San Diego
California
Roseville Union High School conducts cotton study
Cotton is being raised and picked by the agricultural class under J. L. Fidler, director of agricultural instruction, as part of the high school’s agricultural department experiments.
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Roseville Union High School
J. L. Fidler
Agricultural Department
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Redlands Heights Company
Palo Alto
Redwood City
San Mateo
Yaes and
Hill
Cascara
Quinine
LB ‘Ory
Raymond Smith
Shen aTlriend
Ghnanneen
Ingram
San Jose Ave
Wame
Wile
Pearl St
Bellans
Pastor Koenigs Nervine
Didlo
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