California News Briefs Highlights From 1929 Economic Scene
California power line rebuild near Yreka Fort Jones advances with $50000 spend part of expansion toward Etna. Monterey county to buy bridge supplies. Reed Corlett to design detention home jail. Yosemite park power sale terms planned. Fresno armory sale contemplated. Riverside to Marin, Highway projects and rail commissions outline growth, education, and labor trends with multiple city and county actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California-Oregon Power Company
Yreka
Fort Jones
Orlo GQ. Steele
Etna
Monterey
Yosemite Park
Company of Electric Energy
Department of the Interior
Park
Carmel-San Simeon
Villa
Alder
H. L. Leventon
Department of Ethnology
University of California
Fresno Civic Auditorium
City Commission
California
Arthur B. Garland
A. A. Rosensbine Bank
Young
Council of Department
Garland
Rosenshine
E. Forrest Mitchell
Vierling Kersey
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Walter K. Morgan
State Department of Education
California moves to protect wild fowl with southern refuge plan
California's fish and game commission fast tracks refuges to guard wild fowl. Potential sites include the Salton Sea area at the Alamo and New rivers and a Los Banos refuge with thousands of ducks and geese. State official J. S. Hunter says Los Banos offers safety, while southern California plans aim to bolster bird protection. Separately, five thousand citrus trees including Washington navels and valencias are set for shipment to Morocco via Gibraltar, part of a 20,000 tree lot valued at about $25,000, linked to Spain talks led by Francisco de La Riva of Los Angeles.
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Patterson Slough
George A. Posey
Posey
Niles Canyon Road
Western Pacific
Calaveras
Valley Spring
Calaveras County
California
State Railroad Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Olinois
Ohio
New York
Indiana
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Texas
United States
Stockton
Harbor
James A Johnston of
Ross
San Quentin Prison
Marin County Council of
Boy Scouts
Fish and Game Commission
Salton Sea
Alamo
New Rivers
Los Banos
J. S. Hunter
Washington
Morocco
Africa
Elsinore
Gibraltar
Compania de Agricola de Luca
Spain
Francisco de la Riva
Los Angeles
Whopper Oranges Headed to Germany from Colusa Orchard
Four inch to ten inch diameter oranges, labeled whopper, were shipped to Germany from the Colusa orchard once run by Colonel Harrington. Paul Farnsworth, now operating the famed orchard, fulfilled several orders for German dealers seeking the oversized fruit.
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Germany
Colonel Harrington
Colusa
Paul Farnsworth
1928-29 Citrus Harvest Slump Hits Prices and Income
The 1928-29 orange crop rose about 75 percent from 1927-28 but small fruit kept prices 40 to 50 percent below the prior year. Total citrus income reached 118.874 million dollars versus 130.165 million the year before, with thin prospects for next year including a 10.5 million box Navel orange crop and a Valencia crop at 63 percent of normal. Lemon output is forecast at 5.025 million boxes, above last year’s 4.6 million.
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Valencia
California fruit growers set tariffs and safeguards for prosperity
About 1000 delegates from the sixty-second California fruit growers and farmers convention backed state and national cooperation to protect the basic industry. They called for protective farm tariffs, quarantine enforcement, Florida Mediterranean fruit fly eradication, and a five year study of foot and mouth disease with port vigilance. They also urged continued livestock quarantine improvements by a statewide committee under the State and Los Angeles Chambers of Commerce.
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California
Florida
State Chamber of Commerce
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Forest Service warns hardwood growth blocks spruce reestablishment
The Forest Service reports competing hardwood growth as the main obstacle to reestablishing spruce and fir on cut over spruce lands in New England. Beech and sugar maple drive hardwood encroachment when any cutting is done without cultural treatment, and pure hardwood stands result from promiscuous cutting of young growth. Reestablishment of spruce requires careful logging, leaving undamaged young spruce and removing dominant hardwoods after release, to encourage mixed or conifer recovery.
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New England
Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
Oroville Navel Oranges to Exhibit at State Fair
Butte County district will display twenty five boxes of Washington navels grown in Oroville at the state fair in September 1930. The fair commission stored the fruit for exhibition in the county booth next year for the first time.
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Oroville
Butte County
Valley Walnut Association plans new packing plant near valley center
Directors report a bumper crop in the San Fernando Valley with about 9000 acres in walnuts and a harvest of 1140 tons, up from 500 tons last year. A new packing plant costing roughly 50000 dollars is planned to handle future tonnage, targeting completion before next year’s harvest, per Victor Girard of Walnut Acre Fortos.
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San Fernando Valley
The
Valley Walnut Association
Victor Girard
Girard
Waveling Oranges Open Shipping From San Fernando
The first crop of new Wavel] oranges moves from Los Angeles county from San Fernando in early December. Sugar content runs high for the season and sizes are much larger than last winter. Estimated at about 60 percent of normal, the pack-out should be solid due to large fruit. Little wind damage reported and fruit coloring well from cold nights and warm days.
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Los Angeles County
San Fernando
Avocado crop drought hits Southern California yield
This year’s avocado yield falls to 30 to 40 percent of last year, causing fruit scarcity and higher prices per pound. Southern California shows uneven impact with some orchards normal, while Fuertes and Peablas suffer most. Early December wholesale prices run 50 to 60 cents per pound for loose Pueblas and 65 to 70 cents for Fuertes.
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California
Florida citrus seizures rise as new pest fears spread
G H Hecke, head of the Florida Department of Agriculture, reports increasing seizures of California bound citrus fruits from travelers entering the southern region. Special agricultural inspectors remain vigilant due to the Mediterranean fruit fly menace in Florida.
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Florida
California
G. H Hecke
State Department of Agriculture
Settlements Put End To Orange Growers Season Record
The Santiago Orange Growers Association and its members settle a 949,291.98 pool the latest in its history. Season receipts total 2,860,837.19 with shipments reaching 1,774 cars including 85 navels at 62 boxes per car, or an estimated 2,049 cars at 400 boxes per car.
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Santiago
Orange Growers’ Association
Santa Rosa Poultry Branch Hits $2.54 Million in Volume
The Santa Rosa branch of the Poultry Producers of Central California reports year to date business of 2.54 million and a payroll of 95 thousand led by manager Sam Smith. More than two million cases of eggs have been handled by the Santa Rosa plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Rosa
Poultry Producers
Central California
Branc
Sam Smith
Nutritional Roup Threatens Winter Poultry Flocks
Healthful human foods like carrots cod liver oil and green vegetables aid poultry in winter. P B Zumbro Ohio State University stresses vitamin A helps prevent nutritional roup which causes nasal discharge facial swelling and eye mouth lesions with pale kidneys and white deposits on liver and heart. A correspondence course from the university covers treatment incubation brooding feeding and management of this and other diseases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. B. Zumbro
Ohio State University Poultry Husbandry Department
Zumbro
Poultry Husbandry Department
Feeding Poultry Flock for Profit During Year
United States Department of Agriculture outlines why flock profits hinge on annual feed costs and egg production. Leghorns eat 70 to 80 pounds of grain yearly, Plymouth Rock Rhode Island Red and Wyandotte 80 to 95 pounds, plus two to three pounds of oyster shells and about one pound of grit. Eggs average under 60 per hen yearly with peak prices in spring. Profit depends on fall and winter production, with rations including scratch grains mashes meat feed green feed mineral feed grit and exercise from scattered scratch.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Plymouth Rock
Rhode Island
Wyandotte
Crushed Oyster Shells Boost Hens Egg Output
New feeders of crushed oyster shell report an average of 30 extra eggs a year per hen. With eggs at three cents each, that yields 90 cents more per hen and about 87 cents net profit after shell cost. The small change adds up with large flocks, driven by simple chemistry.
Turkeys Kill Method Described For Dry Picking
The article explains the dry picking process for turkeys hung by the legs. It details cutting the jugular vein, sticking by driving the knife through the roof of the mouth to the brain, and how this paralyzes the bird and loosens feathers for easy removal.
Contented Birds Help Pull Egg Production Early
Unworked pullets will reach production sooner and sustain it well. New range pullets are excitable at first until acclimated. Approach pens softly with a whistle or knock to warn birds. This method may yield several extra eggs daily from the pullet flock.
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Southern Pacific Company
Railroad Commission
California Co-operative
Seymour
Sacramento
Everglade
Lodi
Modesto Irrigation District
B. W. Creim
Coalinga
Port San Luis
San Luis Obispo
Union Oil Company
L. M. Todd
L ‘Ines
Kettleman Hills
Junction
Will J. French
State Department of Industrial Relations
Big Sisters
Ventura
Masonic Odd Fellows
Grass Valley
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