The record-union., 1897-03-18

round to ask them to sell their sugar,
but they will never see them There
was time when Mr.. Spreckels, hav-
ing trouble to get what he wanted in
Hawaii, wanted the farmers to raise
beets for him. but that time is past
Nobody need imagine that we have any
great advantage in raising beets over
any other State or country. Any tenn
perate country can raise beets on as
good ground, and a sandy loan will
raise good crops of them.
Any land that will raise ten tons of
beets to the acre, will make money for
it's owners, and those who are raising
fourteen or fifteen tons to the acre are
making money hand over hand, -Four
dollars a ton is all farmers can expect
for their beets. The millionaireS are
sitting in their offices, waiting to see
what locality will offer them the best
bonus to start factories in their midst
Everybody in this country outside of
California is wide awake, and are TAX
ing measures to capture the market
Nebraska is giving bounty of 81 ton
but the law will soon expire and will
hardly be renewed. Washington also
has law giving bounty.
1t is easily seen, then, that we have
no walkover and must put forth our
best efforts. When the $4,000, 900
mark is reached we will have to look
for a. foreign market and the one at
present that offers is Liverpool, at two
and a half cents a pound. which we
cannot do at profit. California, how
ever, stands the best chance to capture
the market.
Sugar is made from oxygen, hydrogen
and carbon, which the beet gets from
the water and the air. In the Eastern
States they have rain throughout the
year. The beets must be matured by
October at least, and must be either
used up or stored where they begin to
deteriorate. Here is where we have an
advantage, as we have longer time in
which to care for our beets, and if
Californians will rustic for the import
trade they can win it.
In Sonoma and Napa the farmers are
investigating the matter and the Farm
ers' Institutes are crowded. They are
wide awake and have already made
such a start and secured 400 pounds
of seed, that it will be very difficult to
catch up with them.
He understood that a few public
spirited men in this county are trying
to push the matter ahead, but the rest
must stand up and help them or the
thing will drop. A move must be made
quickly or the chance will be lost. Sac
ramento County can raise the best
beets in the State, he thought and
should not lose the chance offered it to
capture its share of that 1920, 600, 600
and keep it, If she does not the other
counties WILL
The Misses Green then executed a
fine whistling and piano duet, THE
Mocking Bird
HEREDITY VS.. ENVIRONMENT.
Professor G. w. Woodwork of the
University took UP the subject of
''Heredity VS.. Environment" but be-
fore he did SO he answered various
questions from the question box.
He said the subject was one that all
have very decided opinions on. There
are many proverbs concerning heredity
He should take it up in a different
manner from what it is generally looked
at and on the same basis as he did in
sects. They would not wonder when he
stated that out Of five animals that
survive, four of them will be insects,
and we therefore would go to the most
successful group in order to find out
about animal life.
He would only call attention to two
op>three we'll known insects He would
first refer to the plant lice 1t differs
from other insects in producing young
q Of ho nd hn of
the year. The difference in this class
between producing young and eggs is
only one of a slight difference in tenn
perature. If they lived in a greenhouse
all the year they would produce eggs
all the time. Out doors at certain times
of year some species produce winged
offspring. The phylloxera in Europe
and the Eastern States is winged, while
in California they rarely produce
winged offspring, and they do not in
crease fast here because climatic en-
vironment does not allow them to be
winged.
The honey bee is notable instance of
environment. There are the queens, the
workers and the drones. In the East
many Money raisers produce their
queens from winter eggs. The queens
have a. less number of eyes than the
worker; their stings are straight while
those of the workers are curved: the
workers antinnae are more numerous
than the queens Their dispositions
are also entirely different. The queen
never goes out of the hive but once.
while the workers are restless in the
hive. They are made queens or work.
ers from the same eggs, but simply
from the difference of environment. An
egg in queen cell produces a queen,
and in worker cell a worker The
queens cell is larger and she is fed on
different food She is fed on royal
honey" and what makes her a queen
is simply the size of her cell and her
kind of food
There are other examples. One of
them is the lady bird with twelve spots.
There is one species here and one in
The East. The only difference that can
be seen is that the abdomen of one is
green and of the other black, but they
are totally different insects. and always
breed true to their species.
So we see that what we call heredity
may be simply environment and that
we may breed them in such a way that
the environment may dominate in
breeding and changing a variety or
species. n.looking closely then into
the matter, we can see that heredity
and environment are merely terms that
we use of animals during their lives
Heredity we can apply to the charac-
teristics of an insect early in it's life
and environment to the changes or
characteristics we notice later in it's
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