, THE RANCH
IBeiBBEnBBBlSflllBni&sfs&Sli&nSlKKahBSBSsnBBnns
STORE PATRONS
PLACARDS IN TWELVE BUSINESS
HOUSES HERE ADVISE USE
OF HOME GROWN FOOD.
PURCHASES AID FARMERS
Land and Industrial Department ol
Alaskan Engineering Commission
Works to Market Vegetables Pro
duced in Territory.
In line with the United States fooc
administration movement to urge up
on the consumer the wisdom and ad
visability of buying and storing if
their homes sufficient quantities ot
potatoes to carry them over the win
ter months, the land and industrial
department of the Alaskan Engineer
ing commission has furnished twelve
of the stores and restaurants in An
chorage with attractive signs, letter
ed as follows:
Get Your
POTATOES
By the Sack
LAY IN YOUR WINTER SUPPLY
NOW
Do your bit in U. S. Food
Administration patriotic
movement.
ASK FOR THE ALASKA SPUD
Eat No other.
These signs, measuring 30 by 4C
inches, are displayed in conspicuous
places in the business establishments
and all customers entering the stores
will read them, and many will take
action toward laying in a supply ol
potatoes for the winter.
This movement will accomplish a
two-fold purpose. First, it will bring
about a more general consumption ol
potatoes, thus effecting a saving in
wheat flour and meat; and, second, it
will enable the farmers to secure a
prompt return on their crops by dis
posing of them at this time and not
being obliged to carry them through
out the winter.
KEEP THE WEEDS DOWN.
Attack the weeds as soon as they
appear in the garden. It is less work
to keep a garden clean from the be
ginning than it is after the weeds
have made a good start. Weeds are
gross feeders and rob the garder
plants of food and moisture they re
quire.
Dandelions, plantain and dock car
best be removed from the lawn by
cutting them off below the crown. Fill
up the holes with earth. Cut the
weeds every two weeks and all will
soon disappear.—New York Sun.
WONDERFUL MEMORIES.
Michelangelo had on his lips the
greater part of the poetry of Dante
and Petrarch, and Galileo could repeat
most of Ariosto, Petrarch and Berdi.
Justus Leipsius knew Tacitus by heart
and could repeat any passage called
for. Locke states that Pascal knew
the whole of the Bible by heart. Lieb
nitz, even in old age, could repeat
nearly all the poetry of Vergil, word
for word. Saunderson knew by heart
Horace’s odes, Cicero's “Offices” and a
large part of Juvenal and Persius.
Porson, the great English scholar, de
clared that he could repeat “Roderick
Random” from beginning to end.
EARLY OPPORTUNITY.
“We came to this country and took
the innocent red man’s land away
from him.”
“Yes,” replied the man who has
beer, having troubles with real estate
“and in some cases the innocent rec
man was luckly to unload just wher
he did.”—Washington Star.
The freighter Admiral Wairwright
of the Pacific Steamship company, ar
rived Saturday with a cargo of lumber,
gasoline, coal oil and powder. She dis
charged yesterday and sailed for Seat
tle.
4
FEARFUL OF
DISEASE, WHICH ORIGINATED IN
JAPAN, IS SCOURGING OR
CHARDS IN FLORIDA.
MANY ORANGE TREES RUINED.
I _
Three Hundred and Sixteen Persons
in Everglade State Are Engaged in
Waging Continual War Against
Pest.
—
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Oct 15.—On
ly a continuance of the stringent quar
antine service which has been insti
tuted by State Horticu'tura! Commis
sioner George H. Hecke can keep from
California orange groves the scourge
of citrus canker, according to a re
port to Hecke by Field Deputy Avery
S. Hoyt, who just returned from a five
weeks’ investigation in Florida. The
disease today is costing Florida near
ly a half million dollars annually
in eradication work alone, aside from
the destruction of trees, amounting to
millions of dollars in value, according
j to the report.
Citrus canker was an unknown dis
I ease five years ago, and is believed to
i have come to the United States from
! Japan. In Japan, where the citrus in
| dustry has not been developed to the
: refined state it has reached in this
| country, the disease has not had a
, serious effect. But when it broke
loose among the highly-developed
groves of Florida, it spread like
wildfire.
Hoyt reports that r lorida now lias
316 persons employed on citrus canker
alone. A total of 13,698 citrus groves
were found to be infected during the
period from May 1, 1914 to August 31,
1917. During the same period, a total
of 342,254 nursery trees were found
to be infected.
In the war on the disease, nearly a
quarter of a million grove trees have
been destroyed with the consent of
i the owners. More than two million
I and a half of nursery trees have been
i destroyed with the consent of the own
er.
| In Florida the campaign plan calls
j for the destruction of infected trees as
! they stand, with a kerosene torch.
Detect Signs on Trees. r'
From time to time quarantine men
1 of Commissioner Hecke, engaged in
J the inspection of nursery stock, have
detected signs of the disease on trees
about to be shipped to California and
such trees have been immediately con
fiscated and destroyed.
California has a citrus industry val
ued at $200,000,000 and if the disease
ever gained a foothold in this state
it would be a greater problem than
that of Florida, for the citrus industry
of California is much greater than
that of the southern state.
Commissioner Hecke says that if
citrus canker ever did get started in
California, it would become the
scourge to the citrus groves that pear
j blight was to pear orchards before its
j control was understood.
WANTS TO BE DRAFTED.
Spokane Bank Clerk Submits to Oper
ations to Remedy Defect.
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 16.—In
order that he might be physically fit
when drafted for military service,
Robert D. McCornack, a bank clerk of
this city, has submitted to three sur
gical operations to remedy slight phy
sical defects. After he had failed to
pass the physical examination for
entrance into the first reserve officers’
training camp, he underwent the first
operation. Later he failed of entrance
to the second training camp for an
other defect, and was operated upon
again. The third operation was per
formed later, and McCornack expects
to be drafted on the next call.
FIFTY TONS OF
RUTKS GO
TO SEATTLE
MATANUSKA VEGETABLES ARE
SHIPPED TO PUGET SOUND
MARKET ON U.S.A.T. CROOK.
ORDERS GIVEN BY MERCHANTS
Previous Consignment Established
Superiority of Local Produce and
Occasioned Demand for More by
Dealers.
Fifty tons of turnips and rutabagas,
which were grown in the Matanuska
valley, left here last night for the Se
attle market aboard the United States
army transport Crook.
On the previous voyage of the Crook
from this port to Seattle, Matanuska
farmers made a trial shipment of fif
teen tons of turnips to H. S. Emerson
and Company, produce merchants of
Seattle. These turnips because of their
superior quality over those on the
Seattle market, found a ready sale
and the commission merchants request
ed fifty additional tons be shipped as
soon as possible.
This shows in a way what the mar
ket there would be for Alaska vege
tables of a superior quality, were the
freight rates such that the Alaska
farmers could compete with the out
side prices.
The creditable display of the agri
cultural exhibits at the Alaska Agri
cultural and Industrial Fair, here in
September, a large part of which were
shipped by the land and industrial de
partment of the Alaskan Engineering
commission to Seattle and there placed
on exhibition, probably also brought to
the attention of those who were unin
formed the character of vegetables
grown in the territory, and thus cre
ated a demand for the products when
placed on the market.
ABANDON FOOD PREJUDICES.
Don’t be finicky. Be willing to try
new foods. Certain plentiful and nour
ishing foods widely used and enjoyed
in one section are practically unknown
in other sections of the country. Leam
to know all the good things, not a few
only.
Feople too easily get into food ruts,
insist on eating only the food they are
used to and refuse to give a fair trial
to others. This causes undue demand
for certain staples, with resulting
scarcity or high prices when crops are
short. At the same time other valuable
foods may be relatively cheap and
available. A striking instance of this
is failure fully to appreciate rice—a
valuable source of starch—when pota
toes are scarce and high. Another ex
ample is refusal in certain sections to
use anything but wheat as a bread
stuff, when corn—a valuable cereal
widely used elsewhere as a breadstuff
—is plentiful and relatively cheap.—
Los Angeles. Times.
TOLD TO INCREASE FOOD.
PEKING, Oct. 20.—The Chinese
minister to Great Britain, Alfred Sze,
has sent a dispatch to the ministry of
agriculture and commerce urging that
every effort be made to increase Chi
nese production of food stuffs and ma
terial available for clothing during the
continuation of the present war.
AS TO EATING.
It is a good plan not to eat when
you hurried.
When you are troubled.
When you have no appetite.
When you are laboring under any
strain of mind.
When you cannot lay aside every
care and give yourself up to leisure by
enjoyment of the meal.
EAT LESS SUGAR
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 19.—
The administration today issued an
appeal to the American people to re
duce the consumption of sugar to miti
gate the effects of a shortage which
threatens to extend over the eastern
states. No relief is in sight before
late in November when the Hawaiian
and western beet sugar crops will be
marketed.
BUSINESS CONDITIONS GOOD
IN TWELFTH FEDERAL RE
SERVE DISTRICT.
FRUIT YIELD IS GREATER
California Leads in Payments of Cor
poration and Individual Income
Taxes With Washing-ton Second and
Oregon Third.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20.—Gener
al business conditions in the twelfth
federal reserve district are summar
ized in a report given out as follows:
Th crops of the twelfth federal re
serve district in 1917 will record a ma
terially greater total than that of a
year ago. Wheat, however, shows a
decreased yield of 18 per cent, 64,
796,000 bushels against 78,448,000 ir
1916, according to the government es
timate September 1. In Oregon
Washington, Idaho and Nevada the
barley crop is estimated at 18 per
cent less than that of a year ago, but
in California the estimate fs for 40,
000,000 bushels, compared with 23,
000,000 a year ago.
The production of rice in Califor
nia is rapidly developing. The ap
proximate acreage in 1912 was 1,400
in 1916, 70,000 and in 1917 90,000.
The increase in values has been from
$75,000 in 1912 to $8,000,000 or $10,
000,000 in 1917, better yield and high
er prices both being important fac
tors.
i California shipments of deciduous
! fruits to points outside the state will
total 20,000 carloads, exceeding pre
vious records by more than 2,200 car
loads. Last season 17,891 carloads
I were shipped. According to govern
ment estimates, the apple crop in the
state of Washington will equal las1
year’s yield of over 10,000,000 bushels
but in Oregon and California the pro
J duction will be slightly less than z
| year ago.
Increase in Dried Prunes.
Approximately 200,000,000 pounds
! of prunes will be dried in California
| this season compared with 130,000,
! 000 pounds last year and 170,000,00(
j pounds in 1915. The production in Or
j egon, Washington and Idaho, how
I ever, will be much below normal. Cal
| ifornia’s production of peaches this
j year is estimated at 10,190,000 bush
els, an increase of more than 1,000,00C
bushels over 1916. W’ith a ten yeai
average of 87 for both oranges and
I lemons in California, the September 1
! government reports estimates oranges
at 50 and lemons at 55.
The 1917 raisin crop in California is
estimated at 150,000 tons, about 28,
000 tons more than last year’s produc
tion. About 30,000 tons will be of the
Thompson seedless variety, 20,00C
tons Sultanas, and 100,000 tons Mus
catels.
About tne middle ot July, nops were
being contracted in this district at 1C
cents per pound. Two months later,
42 cents was paid, sales in important
volume being made at prices above 32
cents. These are the highest prices
since 1911 when 42 cents was reached
and are due both to a greatly decreas
ed acreage and to the conviction that
congress will not immediately stop the
brewing of beer. The 1917 hop crop
of the coast is estimated at 125,000
bales, as compared with about 280,000
in 1916.
Brewery Operates in Dry State.
In one of the “dry” states on this
coast, one important concern brews
beer in the usual manner, then ex
tracts all alcohol by a centrifugal pro
cess, denaturizing the alcohol and dis
posing of it as a by-product. The
taste of the beer is said not to be
changed, and the brewery, previously
shut down, is now said to be operating
at capacity.
Due to an increase in average of
about 20 per cent over last year, and
to favorable weather conditions, it is
thought that the sugar beet crop of
California will reach a new high rec
ord this year. The September 1 fore
cast of the government places the crop
at 1,770,000 tons, as against 1,463,000
ons a year ago. Utah’s production
•vill also reach a new high record.
Reports from 147 lumber mills of
the Pacific northwest indicate an av
3rage production during the month of
August of 50 per cent below normal,
with shipments averaging 17 per cent
above actual production.
California’s Sardine Pack.
California’s sardine pack for this
year is estimated at 1,000,000 cases
and it is stated that at the present
rate of increase the sardine pack for
the state will in two years total over
2,500,000 cases, which is the present
pack of Maine.
Petroleum production in California
in August averaged 271,755 barrels j
daily, compared with 259,266 barrels
in July. Shipments averaged 289,
943 barrels daily, curtailing stored
stocks 563,840 barrels.
Utah has record yields of hay and
potatoes as well as of sugar beets
and in its mining output. The state
is generally prosperous, as shown by
its subscription for $9,700,000 Liberty
bonds, with a quota of only $6,500,000;
and a Red Cross contribution of $520,
000, with an original quota of $240,
000, later increased to $350,000.
August bank clearings for 20 prin
cipal cities of this district increased
08 per cent over the corresponding
month a year ago, Ogden showing the
greatest gain with 60 per cent, fol
lowed by Seattle with 58 per cent and
San Francisco with 50 per cent. Build
ing permits for the same twenty cit
ies declined 22 per cent.
Income Taxes of Corporations.
The following are the income taxes
of corporations and individuals in the
seven states of this district. Among
all the states of the country Califor
nia stands seventh in the amount of
corporation income taxes and eighth
in the amount of individual income
taxes, while standing twelfth in pop
ulation. (1910 census)
Corporation Individual
State Income Tax Income Tax
Arizona ....$ 637,993.92 $ 200,330.73
Calif. 6,147,289.14 3,870,314.24
Idaho . 217,479.58
Nevada .... 75,423.06
Oregon . 406,931.70
Utah .1,148,676.98
. Washington 1,187,702.79
176,711.97
15,425.53
413,684.24
181,344.05
855,286.77
$9,821,497.13 $5,713,097.53
FOUR MINUTE MEN BUSY.
Liberty Loan Speeches Are Delivered
in Motion Picture Houses.
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Oct. 22.—Ap
proximately two hundred thousand
persons have been reaehed so far by
the “Four-Minute Men” of California
in their Liberty loan drive, in the
moving picture houses of the state, ac
cording to William V. Cowan, secre
tary of the state council of defense and
chairman of the speaking campaign.
The speakers report that they are
accorded attention and enthusiastic
welcomes everywhere, when they
speak on “Why we are Fighting,” and
“What our Enemy Really Is.”
County reports to Cowan estimated
that more than 12,000 people have list
ened to the talks in San Joaquin coun
ty, about 15,000 in Sacramento county,
nearly 10,000 in San Diego and an
equal number in Orange. Outside of
San Francisco and Los Angeles, re
ports show that about 75,000 persons
have been reached by the four-minute
speakers.
One hundred more speakers in San
Francisco and 200 in Los Angeles
bring up the total number reached to
the two hundred thousand mark, Cowr
an claims.
The drive will be continued this
week.
HURRICANE SWEEPS
WEST INDIES ISLE
TWO LIVES LOST AND PROPERTY
WORTH $300,000 DESTROYED
ON GRAND CAYMAN.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 20.—
The island of Grand Cayman, British
West Indies, was visited by one of the
most violent hurricanes in its history
September 24.
The property loss, exclusive of ship
ping, is estimated at $300,000. Two
lives were lost.
FINAL DRIVE
HERBERT C. HOOVER PLANS
HOUSE TO HOUSE CANVASS
THROUGHOUT COUNTRY.
WASTE MUST BE ELIMINATED
People Are Advised to Use More Gen
erously of Fish, Poultry, Vegetables,
and All Cereals Except Wheat
Food Will Win War.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 22.—
That the final drive for food conser
vation pledges should be made this
week is the message sent by the
food administration at Washington to
food commissioners in all states and
territories.
The enrollment campaign is organ
ized by the states and territories and
most of these have already completed
their preliminary arrangements for
assuring the complete success of the
effort within their borders. A house
to house canvass of the twenty one
million families in the United States
and the enrollment of every man and
woman of this nation in a mighty food
conservation army that will win the
war is the task that the food adminis
tration has undertaken for the week of
October 21 to 28.
Herbert C. Hoover the United States
food administrator today said this
campaign should enlist every citizen
in the world war for democracy. In a
personal statement and appeal he sets
forth the problem and its solution.
“On the success of this unprecedent
ed adventure in democracy,” says the
food administrator in his appeal, “will
largely depend the issue of the war.
Food will win the war, is the battle
cry. Nearly two milion women have
taken the pledge to furnish the food
our allies and oversea armies require,
and already they are visibly increas
ing the available supplies.
“The small amounts which each in
dividual is asked to save through sub
stitution and avoidance of waste when
multiplied by millions becomes an ef
fective total. The whole problem will
be solved if the American people will
eat less of the foods which because of
their concentrated nutritive eelemnts,
must be sent abroad, and more of
other foods of which there is abund
ance.
“The foods that must be saved are
wheat, beef, pork, dairy products and
sugar.
“Those that should be used gener
ously are fish, poultry, vegetables and
all cereals except wheat.”
POET’S CABIN KEPT INTACT.
Robert Service’s Home in Dawson Is
Mecca for Visitors.
DAWSON, Y. T„ Oct. 16.—The cab
in home of Robert Service, the Yukon
bard and author, now at the front in
France, has become a Mecca for all
tourists visiting Dawson. His old
home is in a little log cabin on Eighth
avenue in this city. There he wrote
many of his most famous lines.
The cabin and the yard are just as
Mr. Service left it. One large roll of
wrapping paper which he used for his
manuscript, pinning it to the wall
when writing, also is there, and small
pieces are given to each visitor as a
souvenir. An old diary which Service
used is in the room and is used as a
visitors’ register. Each visitor is
asked to contribute 25 cents to the
patriotic or Red Cross fund.
GROWING COTTON.
The yield of cotton is dependent upon
the number of flowers we are able to
induce the plant to form, and root
space is necessary to flowering. The
cotton plant’s normal rooting may oc
cupy two square yards of earth, which
is several times more than given it in
practice, and the yield may often be
reduced by this fact, as the roots must
interlap.—Los Angeles Times.
SUNSHINE NEEDED.
A vigorous plant cannot be raised
without sunshiqe, nor can any nature
be truly strong and helpful without^
cheerfulness.