Vol. II, No. 2.
ARIZOLA, ARIZONA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1893.
Whole No. 28.
mi TO ARIZOLA.
Why Sbonld Immigrants Do So?
UKVSOXS SI'.T FORTH FOB 8ETTI.EIW
LOCATING II ERE
A Great Array of Inducement for In Tutors
and Homeeekin.
I'otaHli a Fertiliser.
Immigrants and homeseekers should
locate at Arlzola or in the vicinity:
Because the climate Is perfect.
Because the soil is fertile and prolific.
Because land Is cheap and abundant.
Bkcavsr it iias TrtE best ierioa
TIOS SYSTEM IX AKIZON'A.
Because a home-can be made with
little labor.
Because so great a variety of produc
tion is not often found.
Because the yield Is large and prices
are always remunerative.
Because the settler need not spend
a lifetime in felling trees and grub
bing out stumps.
Because life is a luxury in a land
"where It Is always afternoon."
Because there are chances for a poor
man he can never hope to find in an
older community.
Because the country is advancing
and property values increasing.
Because, unlike Southern Cajifornia,
it does not require a small fortune to
buy a piece of land.
Because capital does not block all
the avenues of wealth nor crowd the
poor man to t he wall.
Because Uucle Ram has yet, herea
bouts, manv farms awaiting occupants.
Because good land is getting scarce
and if you don't catch on soon your
chance will be gone.
BRCAl'SETflK WATER SYSTEM IS FOR
TIFIED BY .STORAGE.
Because here Is one of the few re
clonsln the United States that com
bine the products of the temperate
and semi-tropic zones.
Because the worker receives fair
compensation for his labor, and the
rustler" has a field for the display of
his energy and enterprise.
Because there are neither blizzards
nor tornadoes, earthquakes nor inun
dations, snowstorms nor cyclones.
Because the vast and varied resour
c.'s of the surrounding region are In
the infancy of their development.
Because under influence of that de
velonment Arlzola is destined to be
c irne in a very short time one of the
largest and finest cities In Arizona
Because the routes from the railroad
to all points of interest and conse
quence in the surrounding country are
over the shortest and best roads, via.
Arizola.
Because a man can make a livelihood
here wit h less labor than in any part
of the United States.
Because the flouring mill and other
business projects taking shape wil
mike Arlzola the commercial center
and metropolis of the great Caa
; ramie Valley.
Because there Is health in every
b ceze, and health and vigor under
this cloudless sky.
r.ecause Arizola is a station on the
nninlineof a great transcontinental
r;i ilroad.
Because the town grows when tims
are dull, and booms when they mend.
Because it has the only regular sani
tarium, conducted by a competent
physician, anywhere in Arizona.
Because one year of life here will be
worth live years anywhere else,
Los Angles Times,
Chemical science has settled the
facts, that, nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash are the only three expen
sive elements that any soil is likely to
be deficient in: therefore, as a general
rule, those are the only elements that
must be added in order to do every
thing that is known to science in
order to properly feed any crop.
A virgin soil is one that has never
been cropped by man a soil in Its
natural state. Nearly all normal vir
gin soils yield productive crops.
There aresome.such as our alkali soils,
that have to be subdued before profit
able crops can be raised upon them.
The second year after a soil has
been cropped, as a rule, there is apt to
be a falling off in productivness of
either quality or quantity, or botn,
bowing that some available plant
food is wanting. The little that has
been removed by the crop cannot lie
missed by chemical analysis, i e., a soil
would analyze the same at the end of
two years of cropping as it did when
it was virgin; therefore, to determine,
satisfactorily, what fertilizing ele
ments are required soil-test plots
must be resorted to.
But. supposing one has not carried
on such tests, and supposing he has
been growing citrus trees for four or
five years. "What Is he to do in the
mutter of fertilization. Let us
assume that his trees are orange trees,
and that he expects to harvest one
hundred boxes or 7000 pounds per
acre, lie Is told by the director of
our agricultural station that his soil
analysis shows one hundred times
more potash than the soils of Florida
contain, and that he does not need
potash; that he needs nitrates and
phosphates, and that the latter are
all he needs, and he 1$ advised not to
spend his money on potash. This is
an "a priori" form of reasoning to be
sure this is theory in the sense that
the word is so often popularly used
which Is little more than guessing.
He must apply nitrogen and phos-
nhoric acid, and then he will have his
orchard properly fertilized according
to Prof. Hilgard. But if he applies
all three of the elements he w ill have
done everything in the way of feeding
his crop that is known to science.
Shall lie follow the director's advice?
or shall he in the absence of a test
plot, follow the advice of all the rest
of the scientific agricultural chemists?
It is going to cost more to follow the
latter's advice. How much more?
Seven thousand pounds of oranges
requires less than fifteen pounds of
actual itotash. The commercial price
of actual potash is about six cents per
pound, or ninety cents for 100 boxes.
A hundred boxes of good oranges are
are worth at least noo. A hundred
boxes f poor oranges are almost
worthless. Can any one for the small
sum of !H) rents afford to run the risk
of raising a hundred boxes of poor or
anges? For if in addition to phos
phates he adds potash he may rest as
sured, that, as a general rule, he has
done everything that is known to
science in the matter of feeding his
crop to insure a perfect one.
ARIZOLA'S L()VLLV CLIMATE.
WEATHER KKI'OKT
For Week Ending Weilnenday, November
15, 1893,
As recorded by the Voluntary Ob
server of the United States Weather
Bureau at this point:
Day. 7 a m. 2 p.m. 9 p.m. Moan
Thursday 4.02 .01 M.03 R9.01 o
Friday 6-1.01 TM) MM f7.o0 o
Saturday 44.51 W.03 &. q
Sunday 4 1 .. L im.-M as.i ;. n
UnmlnV 37.01 ti'J.tU .Ul 51. HI (i
Tuesday 44.00 71. 00 .12.51 .V.i:j 0
Wednesday ai.Mi li.ui .w-on q
An entire! v clear skv Is denoted by a cipher
and numeral denote tenths ot total obscura
tion by clouds.
Ducks are among the most profita
ble of fowls. When properly attended
they are easily 'raised, and their eggs
command an extra price with a ready
demand.!
I'lckliuit Olive.
At a recent meeting of the Califor
nia Olive Growers' Association the
following was given by a prominent
member as the best method for pick
ling olives, after a number of years'
experimenting with various methods:
The fruit muit be picked by hand
with the greatest care and all bruising
avoided. Only berries of equal de
grees of ripeness shmld be' picked,
hence it is necessary to go over the
trees two or three times in harvesting
the crop.
The great bitterness is removed
from the olive by soaking the berriea
in an alkaline preparation as follows:
One pound of Greenbank concentrated
lye of ninety-eight per cent, strength
is dissolved in ten gallons of water,
and for large amounts of liquid use the
same proportions. Flaee the olives
in this solution and allow them to re
main four hours and no longer. Then
remove the lye and pour on clear w;v j
ter. which change once or twice a day
for two weeks or more until it turns
off the berries perfectly clear, which
indicates that the bitterness of the
fruit has been fully extracted.
Cut some of the fruit after remov
ing the lye to learn if it has pene
trated to the pit and converted the
berry into a "free-stone." If not, af
ter washing a few clays in the clear
water as above, pour on the lye again
aud let the fruit remain another four
hours. The lye should be kept in mo
tion bv placing the casks or vats in
such a way that it may be. drawn off
bv means of a faucet into a bucket and
poured back upon the fruit during the
four hours' exposure to the lye.
After t lie bitterness is removed as
above, place the fruit in a brine made
or four ounces of clean salt to one gal
lon of water and let it stand a week.
Then double the strength of the brine
by adding four ounces more salt to
each gallon of water, and allow it to
to stand one or two weeks. I lien
make a new and tin..l solution of four
teen ounces of salt t o one gallon of wa
ter and pour it over the fruit. If the
fruit has been properly handled, no
scum will rise to the si'i face in a cask !
of such pickles.- j
In putting pickles into bottles for
the market prepare the brine of t lie
strength above ghen ifotirtefu ounces
salt to one pullon of water) by boiling
the salt and can. fully skimming; and
also put into a fifty gallon lot of brine J
say six or cijht ounces or alum. The I
effect of the alum appears to be to
precipitate the impurities ol the .salt
or wa'.er and le:ive the brine perfectly
clear. The alum 'should also he put
in ensk if it is designed to kirp
Ui'"pi''kl''s in thai csscl.
An lnert FauiriiH.
I'rof. Snow of the Kansas State Cni
versity. ha taken advantage of the
observed fact that certain insects ap
pear to die from the effects of a fun
gus grow th attacking them, to make
war upon the Kansas chinch bug,
which has proved so destructive to
grain crops In that state. He inocula
ted healthy chinch bugs with the fun
gus found upon and within dead ones,
by placing the healthy insects in con
tact with those infected, thus caus
ing a rapid spread of the infections
and destroying these, bugs by the
million.
Specimens of diseased bugs wero
sent to some three thousand farmers,
and they reported the most satisfac
tory results from the infection of the
swarms of hungry Inects which came
to devour their crops. It is believed
that in a single season this experi
ment of l'rof. Snow saved to the Kan
sas farmers more than $200,000 in this
increased value of their corn crops.
Prof. Kellogg believes that such
means may yet be found to work
effctually in ridding California orch
ards of many of their most destruct
ive enemies. He thinks that Mr.
Koeble has already found one or more
fungi which which give promise' of
good results in the same direction
among the orchards of that state,
and believes that he should be kept
in the field and aided in every way to
solve the problem of insect exterm
inaeion so far as possible by any and
all available agencies.
Poultry Monthly; The best time to
doctor fowls is when they are first
attacked by disease. A fowl readily
and quickly shows want of condition.
Its comb ceases to he of right color,
its plumage looks a little- ruffled, it
w ings droop slightly. The change is.
not marked, is not present in a pro
nounced degree, but is noticeable to
an observant poultryman. Then ia
the time to apply the remedy. There
is a little difficulty to remove; better
remove it before it becomes a greater
one. It is easier to push a wheel over
an inch board than over a large stick
of timber, and it is easier to cure a
slight ailment than it is to recover
from a severe disease.
The vigorous way in which the
French government protects its peo
ple against adulterated articles of
food, etc., is most worthy of imita
tion. Two seed dealers in France
recently mixed sand with their clover
seed. Upon conviction of the offence
they were fined $400 each, seut to jail
for six months and the seed in their
warehouses was destroyed.
According to the Baltimore Suu a
new and decidedly green Columbian
guard at the World's Fair, who was on
night duty, promptly turned off the
coal oil lights that -were furnishing
heat to the incubators on the first ap
proach of dawn. He dkld't see, so ho
said, why showcases of eggs should be
specially illuminated. The owners of
the incubators took on worse, thau
setting hens po.-slbly could.
The California experiment station
at Berkeley, has been experimenting
the past two years with the lathyrus'
sylvestrls, the new forage plant lately
described in The Oasis, and it is said
to be well adapted to the California
climate. In a way this is proof that
it is adapted" to the climate of Arizona.