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Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1930
Page
2
More than two million baby chicks were shipped from Petaluma hatcheries during the first 15 days of April, hatchery operators said the month shows promise of breaking all shipment records.
The Thomas Jones fifty acre prune orchard six miles southwest of Healdsburg is slated for sale to A. Ferrari of Healdsburg. The announced sale price is reported at 32000 dollars.
Sacramento crop reports show California has planted 6370 acres of watermelons, possibly the largest watermelon acreage in the state. The department of agriculture notes the 1930 cantaloupe harvest begins moving from the Imperial Valley and the harvest on 11,600 acres is earlier than last year.
E J Metcalf of Brawley, a disabled veteran, found willows costly to Imperial Irrigation District ditches. He learned to craft chairs tables and other items from the willows and envisions a large factory.
The California raisin pool, organized under the cooperative marketing act for orderly marketing of agricultural products, filed articles of incorporation with Secretary of State Frank C. Jordan. The non profit corporation will not issue stock, and Fresno will be the principal place of business.
Laurel Atkinson deputy county agricultural commissioner was appointed to investigate rodent control. If pests rise the board plans a campaign for extermination.
The east end of the San Fernando Valley reports a heavy apricot bloom signaling a promising season. Early March sees most cat trees in full bloom, espaliered trees flowering earlier than orchard rows. Much acreage shifted to other uses, with west end orchards cleared for subdivisions or alternative crops.
At a meeting of the San Joaquin Valley Regional Council of the California State Chamber of Commerce the group voted to endorse the federal grape plan and to press for signatures from 80 percent of California grape growers. The resolution was proposed by R. J. Senior, chairman of the council's agriculture committee.
Warning issued to cantaloupe growers to beware of squash vines not dusted for mildew. Mildew starts on squash and killing it there will help keep cantaloupe fields clear of infection.
The Madera County Farm Bureau cow testing division reports 880 cows total with 75 herds tested. Average production for March was 746 pounds of milk and 27.4 pounds of butterfat per herd, based on 1904 cows tested.
Record shipments of boxed apples oranges and grapefruit pushed U S fresh fruit exports to 69 million dollars in 1929, up nine million from 1928 and well above 1927's 60 million. Since 1923 American fresh fruit exports have more than doubled, says Daniel J Moriarty head of the commerce department foodstuffs division.
The lettuce season ends with about 13 000 cars from Imperial Valley, slightly above last year but below earlier fears. Rains slowed cutting and raised prices, while Sudan grass planting boosted this year's agricultural activity. seedings last year yielded gratifying pasture use rather than hay.
Two Curtiss-Wright Flying Service crop-dusting planes arrived from Houston to open the annual pest control campaign in the San Joaquin Valley. Based at Strathmore airport, the ships carry the latest dusting equipment and are described as the Vanguard of a growing fleet. Immediate work targets exceed 6000 acres with more to follow.
Ranchers in the Talbert vicinity announce plans to plant about 6000 acres of lima beans, the district already favoring lima as the leading crop. About 2000 acres will host chili bopper seed with rapid growth, 500 to 600 acres will grow sugar beets, 500 to 600 acres will host tomato plants, T Tangira a Japanese grower has two acres in strawberries, Mexicans will grow 200 acres of cucumbers, and Y Minawaka will plant twenty acres of celery after producing noted high quality celery last year.
Progressive date growers push formation of Coach Ella Valley Consolidated Ltd with at least 1 million dollars in eastern capital for development. Growers will match external funds, issue bonds, and build a packing house for 1600 tons of dates and 250 carloads of grapefruit annually while pollination for the 1930 crop proceeds. Nearby Napa markets discuss central precooling and carload pooling to speed cherry shipments, with six carloads of hogs selling for over 10,000 dollars at Tulare.
Two boxes of Sutter County cherries were sent to Eastern markets last week. The harvest outlook is excellent with a strong market forecast for the season.
Plans for a large commercial date palm project move forward in Cathedral City. William Dawes of Chicago, nephew of former VP Charles Dawes, aims for a ten acre planting, with Mark Anderson of Redlands conducting another development on adjacent land. Bruce Drummond will supervise, a longtime industry figure in Coachella Valley.
L M Hurd of Cornell and USDA specialists Burt W Haywang and Dr M A Jull report that starving chicks for the first days is unnecessary and even delaying feeding up to about seventy-two hours poses no risk of stunting. Under normal conditions feeding before forty-eight hours, or thirty-six hours, is best. If withholding is needed for two to three days, it harms nothing. Do not feed chicks before parcel post shipment.
Ripe cherries appear at Gilroy earlier than ever, marking the first time in history for such an advance. Growers anticipate an unusually large crop across Gilroy district orchards this season.
Sanger grape growers will not sign contracts to join the federal grape stabilization plan until banks and independent packers have signed their acreage, the executive sign up committee of Sanger district declared after adopting a resolution offered by B. E. Knapp, local grape grower.
The Agriculture Department warns that illuminating gas from leaking soil pipes can kill shade trees. Experiments indicate gas-affected trees may recover if exposed to air or oxygen under pressure through a special nozzle driven into the ground at multiple points to displace the gas. Stop the leak to avoid repeating the procedure.
A Kobe customs inspector’s elopement with a brewer’s wife sparks a local purge requiring all young customs men to crop their hair. The customs chief notes the policy aims to curb unprofessional appearances and protect official integrity amid the scandal.
Mrs. D. V. Lee of Asheville North Carolina filed a lawsuit seeking ten thousand dollars in damages from apartment house owners after she tripped on a worn door mat, claiming injuries from the incident.
James Fenimore Cooper letter to General Lafayette fetched 42 dollars at a Paris auction. Dated December 5, 1826, the missive expresses the novelist sorrow over Lafayette’s son-in-law’s death.
Attendants at the government radio station Hadley flying field in New Brunswick New Jersey found Ernest R Hood an electrician lying electrocuted across a 2000 volt line while searching for the cause of static.
A minister of justice report states that 115 people were executed in Poland over the past five years for capital crimes.
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