California News Briefs Highlights From State Reports
The State Board of Education named April 2 to 4 for the California Music Conference in Fresno with Dr. Alexander Roberts delivering the keynote on Music and the Social Program. Other items note Mato improvements at Mendocino State Hospital, new passenger air lines Oakland Sacramento, water supply plans for Redding, and major highway projects with $4.25 million in state contracts forthcoming. Also reported are Hickman’s move to San Quentin for execution, life terms for Welby Hunt and Thorn-face the Yosemite rhino, rising U S population estimates, and ongoing toll bridge developments in California.
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State Board of Education
Fresno
Alexander Roberts
San Francisco State Teachers College
William Edward Hickman
Los Angeles
San Quentin
The
Fox
Elliot Craig
Welby Hunt
Clarence Ivy Toms
Hickman
Marion Parker
California
S. B. Shaw
United States Forest Service
Forest Service
Bay
Peninsula
San Mateo
Hayward
San Francisco
Civil Service Commission
Board of Regents
University of California
Berkeley
California asparagus outlook improves with rains
The March 1 crop report shows statewide pastures at 85 percent of normal, 9 percent below last year but 1 percent under the five year average. The college of agriculture studies asparagus culture as California, with the world’s largest beds supplying about 90 percent of the nation’s canned asparagus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Federal
State
College of Agriculture
Freight car traffic for fruit and vegetables by state
The Bureau of Railway Economics shows annual movement of about 968,025 freight cars carrying fruit and vegetables from 1924 to 1926. California tops the list with 180,741 fruit cars and 52,963 vegetable cars, Florida ranks second in fruit with 54,284, and New York leads in vegetables with 47,223.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Railway Economics
California
Florida
New York
Tulare County Farm Values Rise in 1926 and 1927 Outlook
A. E. Miot, secretary-manager of the Tulare County Board of Trade, told directors at the annual meeting that farm crops increased in value by 1,148,998 dollars in 1926 over the prior year and that generally satisfactory agricultural conditions prevailed throughout the county during 1927.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulare County
A. E. Miot
Riverside Chamber Ships Washington Navel Fruit to 21 Newspapers
The Riverside county Chamber of Commerce boxed fruit from a surviving Washington Navel tree on Magnolia Avenue Riverside and shipped it to twenty one leading city newspapers in the East and Middle West. The bundle included an account of the origin of the orange industry and two trees sent in the 1870s to Riverside resident Mrs Eliza Tibbetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Riverside County Chamber of Commerce
San Bernardino
Washington
Magnolia Avenue
Riverside
East
Middle West
Eliza Tibbetts
California Butter Output Surges in January
State figures show California produced 13.24 percent more butter in January than a year earlier, a bigger gain than the national advance. F. H. McCampbell’s reports indicate California’s dairy demand is rising faster than other western states.
Wasps Treated With Disinfectant Bath Experiment
California researchers at the State department of agriculture tested a disinfectant bath on wasps to combat fig endosepsis. Sixty five tubes of treated wasps were released in the Imperial Valley last week. W C Jacobson, chief of the State division of plant quarantine and pest control, called the results entirely gratifying as the insects burrowed into buds carrying the disinfectant.
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State Department of Agriculture
California
Imperial Valley
W C. Jacobson
State Division of
West San Bernardino grape growers reap favorable season
Grape growers in the western San Bernardino district including Ontario, Upland, Cucamonga, Alta Loma and Etiwanda reported a favorable market and good crop. 12,708 acres yielded 1,197,672 dollars, with 11,638 acres devoted to juice or wine grapes generating 1,147,312 dollars. Raisin grapes covered 596 acres earning 31,500 dollars and 474 acres of table grapes brought 18,950 dollars.
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San Bernardino County
Ontario
Upland
Cucamonga
Alta Loma
Etiwanda
Rolland McKennett
Peach Growers Plan Mass Meeting Over Bill-Back Demands
California peach growers in Sutter Butte and Yuba counties plan a mass meeting to protest bill back demands from California Co operative Canneries that would cut the 1926 peach crop price by about 14 dollars per ton. The growers say the bill backs, a response to their demand letters, threaten advances on the 1926 crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Co-operative Canneries
Sutter
Butte
Yuba
Farm Adviser Appointed in Santa Barbara County
R. N. Ellis, until now assistant farm adviser in Orange county for three years, was named farm adviser for Santa Barbara county by Prof. B. H. Crocheron. He previously served as assistant in Tulare and Imperial. He succeeds Ben Hagglund, who resigned to pursue commercial poultry raising for the Atascadero project in San Luis Obispo county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. N. Ellis
Orange County
Santa Barbara County
B. H. Crocheron
Agricultural Extension Service
Mr. Ellis
Tulare
Imperial
Ben Hagglund
Atascadero
San Luis Obispo County
Rice mills in Biggs keep full operation pace
In Butte county Rosenberg mill has milled over 200000 bags of the 1927 crop this year with 1200000 bags shipped to markets. About 130000 bags remain to be milled in Biggs and will keep the mill busy for roughly two more months.
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Biggs
Butte County
Rosenberg Mill
Guayule Rubber Trials Under Way in Sacramento Valley
Three experimental tracts of five acres each are being tested by American Rubber Producers in Arbuckle Colusa county Orland Glenn county and Red Bluff Tehama county to evaluate commercial production of guayule rubber shrubs in the Sacramento Valley this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento Valley
Arbuckle
Colusa County
Orland
Glenn County
Red Bluff
Tehama County
American Rubber Producers, Inc
Garden Grove Bean Growers Move 2.3 Million Lbs to Port
The Garden Grove Bean Growers Association shipped 23,000 sacks totaling 2.3 million pounds mostly by truck to San Pedro. Movement is satisfactory with only a small holding in Orange county warehouses, some for next season's seeding.
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Garden Grove Bean Growers Association
San Pedro
Orange County
Melon culture research aims to lift California cantaloupe quality
Dr J T Rosa heads a series of experiments by the Davis College of Agriculture on melon culture. He notes the cantaloupe industry in California is vast but could grow much more if fruit quality improved. Presently markets often saturate with melons of inferior quality during peak periods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College of Agriculture At
Davis
J. T. Rosa
California
Progress Report From California Olive Growers Exchange Directors
A quarterly meeting in the California Fruit Building, Sacramento, reviewed progress of the recently organized exchange. Assistant secretary L C Sears reported 714 tons of fruit delivered and marketed under the Sylmar Packing Corp contract, with growers paid $49000 in advances. Remaining payments to members are due April 1, July 1 and October 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Olive Growers’ Exchange
Exchange
California Fruit Building
Sacramento
L. C. Sears
Sylmar Packing Corporation
California Agriculture Special Train Schedules Listed
The Agricultural Extension Service of the State University and the Southern Pacific sponsor a transport exhibit train through the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys to showcase farming conditions. The itinerary covers March 19 to March 31 with stops at New man Los Banos Delano Bakersfield Porterville Kings burg Fresno Madera Merced Turlock Modesto Manteca Stockton Lodi Auburn Sacramento Lincoln Marysville Chico Red Bluff Arbuckle Dixon.
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California Agriculture
San Joaquin
Sacramento Valleys
Agricultural Extension Service
The
State University
Southern Pacific
University Farm
Davis
A. m
Newman
Los Banos
Delano
Lodi
Auburn
P. m
Sacramento
Lincoln
Marysville
Chico
Red Bluff
A. m. Arbuckle
P m
Dixon
Thrifty Man Question Sparks Union of Wit
Excerpt from Berlin Ulk features Marie declaring a whim to marry a thrifty man yet avoiding engagement, a witty contrast illustrating social satire on marriage and finances reflected in lighthearted dialogue.
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Marie
Berlin
Ulk
Castoria promotes easy infant care and comfort
Questioning why babies seem less fretful today leads to Fletcher's Castoria as a safe, gentle pediatric remedy. The ad praises Castoria as pure vegetal medicine for colic and digestive issues, notes its tastiness, and mentions a free care guide, while advising doctor consultation for real sickness.
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Fletcher
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Oakland
Stockton
J. T. Hurst
A. H. Fefelle
Mutual Aircraft Corporation of
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Bakersfield
Redding
Shasta County
Sacramento River
State Board of Health
California Water Service Company
State Board
State Department of Public Works
Bert B. Meek
Meek
United States
American Road Builders’ Association
Illinois
Massachusetts
J. R. Hughes
Arthur Nichols
Nichols
Folsom
Frank G. Snook
Division of Motor Vehicles
Snook
Census Bureau
Michigan
Yosemite Valley
el Capitan
Alfred J. Salisbury
Salisbury
Ernst Weyand
California State Crime Commission
State Division of Forestry
W. G. McMillin
McMillin
Sacramento County
American Toll Bridge Company
Carquinez
Antioch
Carquinez Toll Bridge Company
Nevada
Carquinez Straits
Frank C. Jordan
Oscar H. Klatt
Carquinez Company
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
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Buffalo
Garfield
Parker
Hiscox Chem
Wks
Patchogue
N. Y
Hiscox Chemical Works
Castoria
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