Rain Halts Lodi Tokay Shipments From District
Last rain nearly stopped shipments of Tokay grapes from the Lodi district. The district has shipped 10,648 cars this season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lodi
View this page and access billions of articles with a 7-day free trial.
Start Free Trial
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Not what you were looking for? Search our billions of articles
Articles on This Page
This newspaper page contains 23 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Barstow Printer
Location
Barstow, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1927
Page
2
Eighth UC Santa Cruz egg laying contest winners named
The eighth annual farm bureau egg laying contest under UC College of Agriculture poultry division closed at Santa Cruz last week. Winners include in the boys and girls club division the Fremont Agricultural Club of Oakland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farm Bureau
Poultry Division
College of Agriculture of the
University of California
Santa Cruz
Fremont Agricultural Club
Oakland
Merced County Dairy Output Ranked Second in State
William H. Alison Jr assistant county farm advisor states Merced County produced 10 256 000 pounds of milk fat in 1926 the second highest in California behind Los Angeles County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merced County
Los Angeles County
California
William H. Alison, Jr
Alison
Italian Mussolini lemon policy may affect California citrus
George H. Hecke, director of the state department of agriculture, believes the recent standardization of Mussolini's regime regarding Sicilian lemons could bring the fruit into competition with California citrus products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mussolini
Italy
California
George H. Hecke
State Department of Agriculture
Record cotton ginning peak in Mexicali district season
Cotton ginning in the Calexico Mexicali districts set a new weekly high as six gins produced 2286 bases. The season total reached 10074 bases, while American side output was light due to late week showers with twenty two bales for the period, bringing the season total to 1184 bales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caleixco-Mexicali
Mexicali
California Olive Growers Exchange Formed in Sacramento
The California Olive Growers Exchange, a state wide cooperative for handling olives, was organized at a Sacramento meeting last week with articles of incorporation on file in the secretary of state's office. Headquarters will be established in Sacramento.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Olive Growers’ Exchange
Sacramento
Exchange
Red spider damage in eastern Los Angeles citrus
Deputy horticultural commissioner K. L. Wolff notes serious red spider injury in eastern Los Angeles county citrus groves. Damage is worst in uns irrigated orchards, while recently irrigated properties host nearly as many spiders but suffer less injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles County
K. L. Wolff
Heavy rains threaten Tracy bean crop in San Joaquin
The heavy rains caused damage to beans grapes and alfalfa in Tracy, San Joaquin County. Joe Silveira of Banta says if fair weather returns soon much of the bean crop may be saved from rot. Bean harvesting had just begun and growers were unsettled by the rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tracy
San Joaquin County
Joe Silveira
Banta
California Growers Seek Commerce Help On Grape Marketing
The California Vineyardists' Association asked the U S Department of Commerce for help obtaining full information on grape marketing in eastern cities. The group seeks assistance distributing questionnaires in main grape markets to gather data for its study of marketing and distribution and to support a stabilization program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Commerce
California Vineyardists’ Association
Early 1927 California frost hits coastal regions and Salinas
The mid-October report from the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and the California State Department of Agriculture notes damaging frosts in the second week of October. Frost extended from Lompoc in Santa Barbara through coastal vegetable districts to Contra Costa and into the Sacramento Valley, injuring tomato vines broadly and lettuce and green beans slightly in Salinas Valley and Sacramento districts, with no frost in Ventura county south.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
United States Department of Agriculture
State Department of Agriculture
Lompoc
Santa Barbara
Contra Costa County
Sacramento Valley
Salinas Valley
Sacramento
Ventura County
Hemet Valley Peach Crop Marks Historic Harvest
The Hemet Valley completed its largest peach crop on record just after mid last month. About 7000 tons were processed by local canneries, with 3000 more sold locally or lost. Growers call it a weak market year due to abundant fresh fruit and heavy holdovers. Only No 1 fruit was accepted, and few out-of-town buyers participated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hemet Valley
California Dairy Council Sets Oakland Meeting Date
The quarterly California Dairy Council meeting will be held in Oakland on November 17 during the Pacific Slope Dairy Show. It was moved from Sacramento where it was slated for October 28 and 29 to allow greater member attendance at the Oakland event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Dairy Council
Oakland
Pacific Slope
Sacramento
Chino Valley Sweet Corn Crop Seen as Money Maker
Ranchers report a bumper sweet corn crop in Chino Valley with over 2000 acres planted. Early summers deliveries supplied Los Angeles and nearby markets with corn on the cob, and harvests will extend past Thanksgiving as late fields mature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chino Valley
Los Angeles
Hog sales total in San Joaquin valley reach 33873.86
D. H. Bitner of the California Farm Bureau Marketing Association reports last week hog sales in the San Joaquin valley totaled 33873.86 dollars from 1914 hogs loaded into twenty cars for 136 consignors, plus 484 dollars from cows and calves from ten consignors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Joaquin Valley
D. H. Bitner
California Farm Bureau Marketing Association
California Lima Bean Growers Pay 1.125 Million to Growers
The California Lima Bean Growers Association with Oxnard headquarters reports a payment of 1,125,000 dollars at 8 cents per pound on 90 percent of September deliveries of regular and baby limas to Southern California growers. Final 1926 crop pool payments for regular limas were anticipated, while 1926 baby limas had already been paid months earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Lima Bean Growers’ Association
Oxnard
Santa Ana Chamber Urges USDA Support to Fight Pepper Weevil
The Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution urging the USDA to spend 5000 dollars annually to aid ranchers against the chili pepper weevil. County Horticultural Commissioner A A Brock requested the action. A pest laboratory has been set up by the Bureau of Entomology the California agricultural experiment station and the growers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Department of Agriculture
Santa Ana Chamber of Commerce
A. A. Brock
Bureau of Entomology
California Agricultural Experiment Station
Rice crop estimates at Colusa county warehouses heighten concern
Conservative estimates from the Rice Growers Association in Colusa County place 1927 rice stock at about 500000 bags across 19 warehouses. About 75 percent of the crop has been cut threshed and stored in Colusa. Glenn County storage is 70 to 80 percent. Colusa produced near 800000 bags last year, with idle land this year likely reducing total output below 1926.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rice Growers’ Association
Colusa
Colusa County
Glenn County
Navel crop ready for Lindsay citrus season
After months of prep and large expenditures Lindsay district packinghouses ready to handle the navel harvest starting soon after November 10. Season runs later than last year as exports stall due to a new maturity rule. Growers urged to test fruit before delivery as former foreign market outlet is closed. Most houses have borating equipment and have expanded to facilitate handling the crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindsay District
California News Briefs Highlight Weather Laws and Projects
California news notes general November weather with showers possible in the northwest. The 1927 California statute book of 2,525 pages and 898 laws is ready for sale at five dollars. Other items include highway accident reporting plans, a battle to protect Ventura parapet from oil drilling, and state figures on workmen compensation payouts and tuberculosis decline. Reports cover deer hunting in Trinity County, California fish rights in Mexican waters, gas conservation, prison camps, child labor investigations, reforestation plans, opposition to the federal auto tax, and bank and corporate filings. California plates for 1928 and Wrigley expansion plans are also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Pacific Northwest
Father Ricard
Padre
Santa Clara
Frank C. Jordan
Carroll H. Smith
Secretary of State
Frank G. Snook
Bert B. Meek
Ventura
Meek
John A. McGilvray
State Department of Industrial Relations
Trinity County
Trinity National Forest
Tower House
Redding
State Fish Exchange
Andrews
Superior
San Diego
Attorney General’s Office
Plantiff
State Department of Public Health
Big Oak Flat
Tioga
Wawona Mountain
Yosemite Valley
Allyear
Merced
Richard Washburn Child
National Crime Commission
Washington
Missouri
Clearinghouse
Mariposa County
C. C. Young
William J. Carr
Monterey
Carmel-San Simeon
William A. Green
American Federation of Labor
San Francisco
Clif
Pratt
California State Automobile Association
Burton T. Towne
California State Association
Burton
West
Hoover
Shortridge
Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
National Association of Supervisors of State Banks
United States
Will C. Wood
Wood
Wrigley Corporation
Delaware
Sacramento
Los Angeles
State Motor Vehicle Department
Quick Question Quiz Answers Pack
A compact set of factual Qs and concise answers covering Lincoln Gettysburg address date, native alphabets, psychology, Blue Grass Stakes winner 1926, artist portrait purchase by a foreign government, largest Great Basin lake, famed fishing book, giant python size and diet, VP salary, Christian population in NA, song Hail Columbia authorship and first sung date, president born in New Hampshire, Pythagoras, 1926 Indianapolis winner, famed female star details, northern west coast city, Burns occupation, Venus Flytrap habitat, current secretary of agriculture and state, and American Bible Society organization date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Basin
Answers to a 20 item history and science quiz
A list of quiz answers covers topics from water born young animals to notable figures such as C L Dodgson and Guglielmo Marconi. It names institutions like The Connecticut and roles such as secretary of state, including figures like Molly Pitcher and Gen Anthony Wayne, with dates 1770 1769 1926 and a large monetary figure of 11 588 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Dodgson
Connecticut
Radiation pyrometer measures heat of molten metal
The device uses electric current generated by welding two metals to gauge heat. A radiation pyrometer records internal furnace and molten metal temperatures from a distance, providing accurate heat values and aiding better steel and iron products as science advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Washington Star
The Poor Man's Sport Track and Distance Running
Herbert Reed argues in Outlook that distance running is the poor man's sport. Runners need only shoes and a simple suit, often training after long workdays without trainers, using leisure time to build a reputation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Reed
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lincoln
North America
Columbia
New Hampshire
Pythagoras
Robert Burns
The
American Bible Society
James M’neil Whistler
Gertrude Ederlein
Prof
W. C. Roentgen
Molly Pitcher
Gen
Anthony Wayne
Guglielmo Marconi
Walter Hagen
Charlotte Cushman
Constantinople
Sir Richard Burton
Search the Barstow Printer Today with a Free Trial
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
Not Finding What You Were Looking for on This Page of The Barstow Printer?
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
Browse Newspapers
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
By Location
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
By Date
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
By Publication
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.