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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1916
Page
5
This entry extols a 100 mile front desert region near the Pacific with 22 000 square miles of area 649 000 irrigable acres and fertile valleys. It highlights mining wealth population 15 000 education 32 schools churches railroads and highways altitude climate and a gross assessed valuation near 19 805 350 real 75 000 000 potential 500 000 009.
The University of California advises mixing grains for chickens to ease transition and cut costs. Rolled barley costs 40 to 50 cents less per 100 pounds than wheat with similar feeding value. Gradual changes are recommended to allow fowls to adjust before favoring the cheaper grain.
The report highlights key farming challenges in the northeast including lime needs for soil acidity, humus, drainage, alfalfa cropping, crop rotation, seed improvement and marketing. It notes better livestock sites and feeding as well as eliminating unprofitable cows. It also describes a Kentucky patent for a collapsible poultry crate with telescoping sides and hinged bottom improving shipment efficiency.
The piece cites Henry Ward Beecher’s creed on soil and industry, urging deep plowing and manuring. Unsold lots and small tracts in Calipatria near Imperial Valley are to be auctioned. Separate items note submerged ranches between the San Jacinto river and Lake Elsinore, with buildings barely visible. Chico students suffer injuries from a snowball fight.
Tom Williams of Yermo leads a Harvard development with 40 acres of apple trees on section 22 and 80 acres to barley as part of new irrigation and fencing work. Los Angeles investors G. F. Getty and W. Ward fund and direct plantings and bore wells. Williams aims to create a thriving agricultural community near Harvard Mojave Valley with 3500 trees and 5 000 locust windbreaks.
One of the west’s largest seed houses, Aggeler & Musser Seed Company, Los Angeles, has issued its twenty third annual 1916 catalogue. It claims to be a complete seed book with over 1,000 questions answered, plus data on tools, poultry, spraying, and insecticides. A companion Garden Manual is also offered free postpaid on request.
Four years after joking about serving as a nurse if France warred, Miss Madeline Davis of San Gabriel has left for New York to sail next week and fulfill the pledge by serving at the front.
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