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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1928
Page
4
Dairy specialists at New Jersey State College of Agriculture advocate purchasing proven sires to lift scrub herd production by about 1,000 pounds at $23.25 per head. They warn replacement bulls must be carefully chosen to sustain gains, favoring proven ancestors to ensure transmitted traits and safer management in bull pens despite risks of unruly sires.
The article advises feeding whole milk longer when skim milk is unavailable and gradually substituting with warm water mixed gruel of high quality concentrates. It lists a home mix formula totaling 259 lb cornmeal and grains, 150 lb linseed oilmeal, 100 lb blood flour, 20 lb steamed bonemeat, 10 lb salt, plus options for ready-mixed calf meals and dry skim milk fed like skim milk.
C. S. Rhode of Illinois urges dairy farmers to cull unprofitable cows now. With high beef prices, farmers can sell culls for meat at good rates. Feed scarcity and underfeeding on some farms make shedding poor cows prudent.
Practical guidance for dairy farmers emphasizes not mixing milk, thorough stirring, and daily washing of utensils with hot water and dairy powder. Other steps include cooling milk before sealing, washing cans promptly, avoiding odor transmission, storing milk in the milkhouse, whitewashing barns, keeping manure piles away from cow paths, delivering milk daily, and daily cow grooming.
W M Jardine secretary of agriculture cannot visit California this month and cancels the trip on medical advice. G H Hecke state director of agriculture has been notified. Marysville district will harvest over 180000 tons of cling peaches this year, about half of California’s total, with canneries to begin July 18 and crop conditions reported as good with excellent yield.
The Cornell poultry department recommends a mix of scratch grain and mash for young chicks. For the first four to six weeks feed mash in the morning and grain in the afternoon in shallow troughs, with specific ratios: grain 40 lb cracked wheat and 60 lb fine cracked corn. mash includes cornmeal, bran, middlings, oats, meat scrap, bone meal, milk products, and salt. Adjustments offered for milk, oyster shell, grit, and future weeks.
A. A. Brock, county horticultural commissioner, estimates annual pest control in Orange County or chards will top $1,000,000, up from about $900,000 last year. The increase comes from double treatment for black and purple scale, using spraying and fumigation together, and expanded Santa Ana acreage.
Two carloads of grapes from Oasis Station near Indio are believed to be the season's first carrot shipments of that fruit from Southern California. The fruit was grown on the Indian Head ranch, owned by George Johnson.
Fifteen crews of fumingators set tents over citrus trees in the Redlands district and release deadly gas. About 4000 acres are expected to be treated this summer. Walter Hadley and W. O. Cook oversee the county operation and anticipate a thorough clean-up.
Shippers and growers announced that about 71220 tons of grapes will be shipped from Stanislaus County this season. Nearly 5000 cars will move the crop with Alicante Bouchet leading at 1338 cars east. Carignanes 81 cars, Zinfandels 768, Malagas 609, and Thompsons 516. Total value estimated at 2638710 dollars.
Reports from northern and southern California indicate a light crop overall due to heavy losses elsewhere, but Tulare county olives seem to have passed the critical period and may yield a normal or better harvest in this district with improved prices anticipated for growers.
Statistics indicate the United States peach crop in 1928 at 64,103,000 bushels, up 41 percent from 1927’s 45,463,000 bushels and 23 percent above the five year average. California’s 1928 output is estimated at 602,000 tons, compared with 492,000 tons in 1927 and 541,000 tons in 1926.
The Federal Radio Commission asked permission via the State Department of Agriculture to broadcast market reports during the harvest season. G. H. Hecke, director, said a short wavelength station operated by the State Fish and Game Commission in Sacramento would relay the reports from capitol extension buildings.
A $625000 factory will rise on a 25 acre Richvale site in Butte County by Pacific Coast Pulp Paper Company a Delaware firm with $1500000 capital. The plant will hire 100 workers with an $18000 monthly payroll and use rice straw to produce paper, the only plant outside Germany to use this process, aiming to double the county rice crop returns.
C O Cornwell traffic manager of the California Fruit Growers' Exchange and traffic committee chair of the California Citrus League announces cancellation of the terminal charge of 3 cents per hundred pounds on California oranges shipped to New England points. The move establishes a $1.55 rate on oranges to all Eastern points, following last year’s cancellation of a similar terminal charge to New York and Eastern Canada, saving growers about $135,000 annually.
Refrigeration charges on melons and lettuce moving from the Imperial Valley in California and the Salt River Valley region of Arizona were reduced by the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington effective August 15. The new base matches charges for similar shipments from the San Joaquin Valley, where current rates run about $30 lower for eastward movement. Growers had contended the previous disparity was unreasonable.
Governor Young’s peach conference committee in San Francisco met with growers canners and co operatives to resolve the 1928 peach crop terms. A price of 25 per ton will be met but the entire crop cannot be packed. Each orchard may sell about 5 percent of its tonnage, leaving roughly 15 percent of No 1 fruit unsold and growers could gain 1.5 to 2 million more than last year, with the curvey committee remaining active.
California Agricultural Society marks 75th anniversary with an outdoor luncheon at the California Botanic Garden in Mandeville Canyon near Los Angeles on the 12th inst. Directors from across the state were to assemble at a barbecue at the Bixley ranch in Long Beach on the 11th inst. The society, formed in San Francisco soon after 1849’s gold rush, is the second oldest agricultural body in the nation.
E. L. Frary of Pacific Fruit Express reports this season's California green fruit shipments total 2,965 cars, higher than 1927 and 1925 levels but below 1926's 4,218 cars. Plums and pears are in transit as Newcastle ships 20 cars and Loomis 18 refrigerated cars with the fruit.
The California Livestock and Baby Beef Show set for November 13 14 and 15 at Union Stock Yards South San Francisco draws wide interest. Leaders in science, agriculture and industry see the value of crop rotation and livestock rotation to diversify farming and stabilize distribution. The event aims to promote feeding and finishing of livestock with fat cattle sheep and hogs entered both individually and by carload.
Poultry mites threaten early summer egg production by hiding in roosts and walls. Spray the coop before mites appear using kerosene oil crude oil four ounces carbolic acid and cresol solution or sheep dip, then repeat several days later to reach hidden spots and disinfect.
A compact guide notes crushed oyster shell for chicks diet and stress on balanced rations. It warns against damp mushy feed, recommends uniform low roosts for heavy fowls, and suggests alfalfa hay to deter mites. Start small, learn details before big capital. Turkeys require October care for breeding or holiday markets.
Extension entomologist C. H. Brannon explains the codling moth is the major apple pest in North Carolina. The larva overwinters in cocoons, with two to three generations yearly. timing and arsenate sprays at blossom end and during hatch periods are key to controlling damage.
The piece argues strawberry plants have small root systems and thus require ample plant food and water. It stresses that irrigation and accessible nutrients are essential for large yields, noting that dense planting or drought during development reduces size and marketability of the berries.
The red mite pest draws increasing grower attention as spray programs aim for better control. Notable damage appears in leading fruit districts, especially in unsprayed or poorly sprayed orchards. Lime sulphur remains the main control in standard schedules, though some orchardists try one oil application seeking greater tree protection.
Horticultural notes announce spray schedules for key orchard pests and guidance on dormant oil sprays. The text discusses a cross between a Chinese Bush peach and J H Hale yielding vigorous semi dwarf progeny, urges proper pest control by removing old trees or pruning. It emphasizes trimming live trees, removing dead limbs, destroying pests, and maintaining productive orchards.
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