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TTTE ATiTZONA TiEI'UBLIOAN S ALT TUVER VALLEY EDITION.
Active Farmers Make Good On Ranches In The Salt River Valley
PAGE FOUR
Home Grown Vegetables
Every Day Of Every Year
Peoria, Ariz, April 3d, 1313.
Editor Arizona Republican.
I would like a short space in your
a;er to say a few words about vege
table .irileniti,ir. There are few
I'lai'es in America where conditions
are so favorable to the raising of
vegetables as here in our own Salt
River Valley, and still there are many
of our people who are not even prow-
nfc enough vegetables for their own
u;e. Our climate is such that every
farmer may have home grown vege
tables every month in the year and
every day ill the month. I have a
I lot of ground containing about two
acres which I use exclusively for
garden, and 1 have found that 'I can
f uccessf ully raise almost all kinds
f vegetables. 1 lan not have every
kind of vegetable every month in
the year, hut I can have some kinds
of vegetables every month in the,
year.
My spring garden is mostly plant el
in February and March, and my win
ter garden in September and October,
l-ut some kinds of seed may be plant
ed during the winter and summer
months. In winter I have for use
lettuce, radishes, onions, beets, turn
ip, mustard, spinach, cabbage, cauli
flower and such hardy plants as are
rot killed by frost. In summer mel
ons, squash, corn, beans, sweet and
Irish potatoes, eeg plant, nkra, to
matoes, peppers, etc. thrive in the
hot sunshine. In spring peas car
rots, asparagus, and such things,
with some of the winter vegetable
tnat will last until early summer are
in season. In the fat", iate beans,
roasting ears, cucumbers, pumpkins,
etc., make a good variety and will
be plentiful until the winter supply
is ready for use. Last fall I had
green beans, tomatoes, etc., until the
early part of December. Two crops
of potatoes, beans and corn, can be
raised each year and this year I
intend to try to have three crops of
roasting cars.
This spring I planted Irish potatoes
about February 10th and the middle
of April I had potatoes as large as
hens eggs on those vines which lull
never been irrigated up to that
time.
Garden raising like everything else
o.-he successful requires some at
tention and liibor. Seed must be
planted at the right time and prop
erly irrigated and cultivated: but
the returns for this come in the
fresh crisp supply of vegetables for
lahle use or market. Now when the
price of food stuffs is so high 1 am
sure that our farmers would find it
profitable to raise more vegetables.
M.WUCI, J. WOOD.
Peoria, Arizona.
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'WSJ.-- . jJisea'T--SP
AN OLIVE AND ASH Ii()RlE!,EI BOITLEVA
A view of North Centiil Avenue, five miles north or Phoenix. On this beautiful, macadamized
are located scores of lovely homes and many fine orchards and orange groves.
drivj
Children Mo Hindrance
In Valley Of Sunshine
How One Man
Made Good On
Strawberries
A I)EARIX(i DATE PALM
! a Freh, Ripe Date Good? Ask those Who've Tried Them.
the Many Unique Products of the Valley of the Salt
One
River.
of
Asparagus One
Of Valley's Best
Paying Products
By Ernest Hall " v
Asaracus has been one of the
test paying crops I have raised, that
is taking into eonsideratin the cost
of producing. The gross returns are
not as great as some other crops,
but it requires less labor in pro
ducing than almost any other crop
nd it is always a sure crop, one
that you can absolutely hank on.
I have approximately one and three
fourths acres devoted to asparagus,
one half of which was planted in
199. one quarter In 1910 and one
quarter in 1911. In 1S12 I commenced
to rut on March 4th and quit cut
ting May 7th, receiving ""c a pound
for the first and the price gradually
Tan down to iro at which price the
ulk if the crop was marketed. The
total revenue received was $15fir. In
1913 I commenced cutting Marrh
Mh and quit May 31st, the gross
returns for 1913 being $313. 0.-). In
1914 I commenced cutting March 5th
sind quit May 2."ah anil the gross
returns were $3S.2".
In 1914 the price started at 30c
a pound and ran down as low as
lic for a few days, hut by shipping
out a little of the surplus I was
bl to bring the price back to 15c ,
a. pound, at which figure the bulk
of the crop was marketed. It re
quired on an average. of two and one
half hours each day to cut the as
paragus and it . was not bunched,
but sold loose. The- tops are hoed off
every winter and on an average is
disked four times, cultivated with a
one horse cultivator five times and
irrigated ten times in each year. I
have not fertilized my asparagus at
all, but feel sure if I had the time
and money to do so. it would in
crease the yield and quality firlly
twenty-five percent.
Starts As Renter
Now Owns Wilson
District Ranch
May U'th, 1915.
Editor Republican:
We have been living for four years
on twenty acres in the Wilson dis
trict: For two years we rented the
place and for the last two years we
have owned it ourselves. During the
four years wo have been on the place
we have tried to grow vegetablss
nearly altogether. Our success has
been such as to lead us to believe
that there is a great future here in
small farms cultivation The figures
I am giving you below are the ac
tual amounts we have received from
different crops during the four years:
Ijist year off a small patch of as-
Weight
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A 100 AVATEI? METX)X
Down in Georgia they can only dresm about such wonderful melons, so
sweet, so ripe and red, so juicy, as any farmer c.n gro in
the Salt River Valley.
Editor Republican:
I landed at V
of December, lv.t.'i,
South Dakota,
ponies and one
May . 1913.
enix on the tth
from my home in
with three saddle
pan of work horses,
three children and an invalid wife.
To get a farm to go to work on
was my first thought. I found it and
went to work all on a credit for I
was '"strapped." I pift in ten acr.'a
in grain and got a start. Rented
the neNt season an nlfalf.i place,
where I made good that season, hut
ps I was well along in years my
i hildren, all small, the thing was to
decide where to settle so as to edu
cate them and at the same time pav
for ;:nd buiid tip a. home. I first
1 .irrrained for ten acres but as mat
ters turned out I got fifteen, which
proved to be all I cared for as
gardening was the first move for a
living and money to pay interest
on this Jl,r0u, as the land had cost
me 100 per acre, I had determined
to go into strawberries for a busi
ness and it was in that crop I soon
raid on.
I had land enough for pasture for
my own spitn of horses, and one or
more covs, Ms that was the living
always, from lno to 251! hens.
I made a specialty of strawberries
and my hooks show that on the 2.rth
of April "lie season I sold to J. W.
1 'orris 9K3 boxes, netting $117.92. to
a peddler two crates at $l.ii0 per
irate, or a total that day of $120.92.
That was the best days work, but
tile ",. acres turned out close to
2,7'iO. so I paid for picking and what
other help. I did the work of caring j Hie
for the crop until picking season, j j ii
I was told by many men that 1 never j from
could pay out $ln per acre ani;,ml
make it on the land, I did it, iinil jo,
can show any man the books year j three eighths of
after year how I did it, I have my strawberries. Th
rail' h rented. live in town. take ! , , would have
Out Of Doors Feeding Sends
Fat Hogs To Market Early
Twenty-five ye vs experience in the
breeding, growing and fattening of '
h gs in the Glendale country leads;
me to believe that nowhere are the ;
advantages in this country as great
as in this valley. j
Here the hogs live out of doors:
the entire year round, no expensive i
feeding places are required, continual ;
green alfalfa pasture for twelve'
months in the year always at hand, j
and Milo Maize and Kaffir corn fori
fattening and finishing are natural ;
products of the soil. These are the i
great item;; that must appeal to the I
hog man for profit in his
and the chief item for him
Absolute profits ;
the hog man each
with very lidle c
and advancement
reach his fondest
cou:
lie guaranteed to
season and year.
are the increase,
in his herd will
expectations, antl
led with gooil sense and good
manag'.ment he has no chance of
Jailuie and is sure of an excellent
4rofit from the results of his la
bor. There is always a good market for
both feeders and fat stock, hogs are.
always in demand and it is impos
sible to overdo this great industry
in our midst, let nie assdre every
business farmer :;nd prospective hog raiser
to eon- ' that in this country he will find tho
sidcr before entering this
i ndiist rv.
Continual out of doors living with
access lo the greatest of all forage
lops, alfalfa, means bone and muscle
for qujck and early market growth,
h.rge and prolific litters and above
all good health and vitality which is
impossible lo obtain without great
care and expense where adverse con
ditions prevail.
1 believe that hogs can be sue- j (rack
cessfully grown and marketed from i
this locality cheaper and with much
greater satisfaction to the grower
than it is possible from any other
section of the Fnited States, there
is no place where the hog is more
prolific, no place where the neces-
important ! natural conditions for this industry
! alway s ready at his command and it
is to his great advantage to come
and locate with us and "go to it."
O C liREKN.
The Annual Arizona State Fair will
be held at l'hoenix during week of
November Sth to llith 1915. Kvoryliody
is coming. There will be fast harness
and running races,- auto road and
aces. $75.(100 in prizes.
I
Ernest 1 la II
In 1911 I planted a patch of straw
berries Arizona Everbearing a little
less than one quarter of an acre.
I started to pick them April 1",
1912, mi I picked until July 15th and
the gross "returns were $2S0.2U. The j
pickin;; if paid by the box would !
have cost a littie over $10 and the j
baskets and crates about $11. making'
the net returns to the ranch over J
$220. In January 1912 I planted not j
quite an eighth of an acre more to i
same variety and April Sth, j
berries i
sary conditions are as available, and
no place where feeding and care- ! Of tne T:,,0t,9 taxpayers
taking are as ideally procured as in of Arizona, .Maricopa county leads in
Retorts of oil discoveries in Tonlo
ISasin are received at Phoenix. De
velopment of oil wells in Arizona will
mean considerable advance in indust
rial lines.
. o
the r:7,0ti9 taxpayers in tne Slate
i the Oh ndale country.
number with a total of 9,fi51.
I commenced picking
these two patches and when I
picking July I had sold
So of berries from less than
in acre devoted to
picking if all hir
cost $75 and the
SOth year.
Maricopa
thanks to i im
things, tasy and am in my
Have spent 21 years in
county, wife still living.
the Arizona climate; she is passed 71
O. ('. CI1AMRKUS,
fii'2 N. 9th Ave., l'hoenix.
I will gladly answer any in
rptiry as to health or profits.)
crates and baskets cost
ing a net return to the
better than $:150.
$11.50, leav
ranch of a
From tile
J4
r
taf ... s
1
patclk set in January 1912, I sold i
$220 of plants during the winter of ;
1912 and 191::. In January 191:1 I
planted one quarter of an acre more
of Arizona Kverbearing strawberries
and during the' winter of 1913 and
1914 I sold $517.S5 of plants, over
$100 of plants from the patch planted
'.lie yvuf before and the balance from
those planted in 1912.
The labor in cultivating and Irri
gating strawberries amounted to con
siderable. From the first of March
until the first of ictober they wprj
irrigated on an average of once in
eight days and during the balance
of the year about once in twenty
four days and from the first - of
March vnlil the first of August they
were cultivated with a one horse
cultivator every eight days.
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AT THE "CAMELliACK XlT1iNEUY"
Showing the nurseryman-inventor, C. I Helm, with his patented digging
tree-balling device, also an orange, a paim ana an onve
as balled t-r transplanting
and
"When shall we th ree meet again?"
paragus. we made $K0. An acre of
lettuce netted us $SG. We have re
ceived $75 off a small patch of
sweet potatoes and $75 off a small
patch of beans, as well as $125 from
Ane acre of cantaloupes. The first
year we were on the place, five
Vacrrti of watermelons brought us
$5011. This year we have not so
far completed our figures, but it
looks good. We have more asparagus
this year and our truck garden
is doing very well. We have cows
and chickens and maker about ten
pounds of butter a week which brings
a good price always. We have all
the milk and cream and eggs we need
for our own use. We have no kick
to make; things grow here faster
than anywhere else we have ever
been.
MRS. FRANK M L'RR.
Borrows Money
And Succeeds With
Calves And Bees
Rich Reward
For Growers
(Continued from Rage One)
berry is a variety of recent intro
duction, but it promises to become
one of the leaning varieties. The
strawberry season opens about the
midflle of March and lasts until
the middle of July. The price re
ceived for local berries depends a
great deal on the price of California
berries, the local berries commanding
a premium of x fifteen to thirty cents
a crate above that received for Ca
lifornia berries.
We doubt if there is any place in
the country where blackberries yield
heavier than in the Salt River Val
ley. Records of over five thousand
baskets from one quarter of an acre
have been made, and with an abund
ant supply of water they grow to a
large size and delicious quality. The
season opens about the first of June
and lasts until the . middle of July.
The average price per crate of fif
teen baskets is about one dollar.
Raspberries are not grown commer
cially, mainly on account of their
being so much more money ma
on blackberries, the raspberries not
yielding near as well. The Black
Cap variety is the poorest yielder,
and the red the best. Raspberries
are sold in the half-pound baskets
and bring twelve and a half to fif
teen cents per basket.
ERNEST TIALL.
May S, 1915.
Editor Republican:
I came to the Mtickeyc Valley and
located 23 miles west of l'hoenix
with a large family and no means
of support. I hauled wood to l'hoe
nix at first, bought a. claim of IfiO
acres for $350.00, paying for it in
wood, anil borrowed money; com
menced raising alfalfa anil sorghum.
T started in t,he log business with
one pet pig as a gift which we
raised on a teaspoon. In a few years
the field was black with hogs which
T found very profitable. I also
bought 170 calves on borrowed money
and took bees on shares, traded wood
for sto'"e boxes which I changed to
movable frame hives. I now have
about 1,400 colonies of bees, other
stock and SO acres of land worth
$200 per acre, have graduated four
children and am giving two nMre a
fine education, have travelled exten
sively the past five years and have
not found a state in the IT. S. as
prosperous and a climate as beautiful
or where the farmers make money
as fast as in Arizona, with water
just when the crops need it. Two
crops of alfalfa hay and two seed
crops, or six crops of hay and six
months of excellent pasture. Almost
every eight years plowing up the al
falfa, raising two crops of milo
maize, barley or wheat and reseeding
to alfalfa. Dairy cows, hogs and
fattening mountain cattle on our ha"y
and winti" pasture is all very pro
fitable. . A number of my neighbors
that came to our valley when I did
broke, and worth now from $20,000
to $50,000. We own and control our
own canal, have a railroad, good
roads, first class schools, rural free
delivery and telephones.
B. A. HArisEI-I
Buckeye, Ariz.
o
Postal business continues to in
crease. Total for 1914. $130,027.67 as
against $105.32(1.40 for 1913. The
business for January 1915 reached
tll.G5S.00; for January 1914. $11,079.70.
For February 1915. S10.354.1S; for
February 1914, $9,010.81.
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