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8 LARGE ACREAGE OF CROPS NOW GROWING IN VALLEY OVER SIX THOUSAND ACRES UNDER CULTIVATION, WITH ADDITIONS BEING STEADILY MADE It is practically impossible to com pile data showing the total acreage ol 1.1 nd under cultivation in the Imperial valley and thei a lan be little doubt that the following table is incomplete. Hut >.. t.u .is the Press ban been able to gaHfef information, there was grow* inn on the (Irsi daj «•» May .1 total of 6,313 acres ol various cultures, includ ing nursery, viueyardj garden v.-^. tables, >i.liard. -»«»r« iiimi. OatS, wheat .iii.iii.i .md barley. More than halt <>i the total acreage lain barley, pf which there is 3,572 acres, with alfalfa aa second, with 1 ,.488 acres. There are 391 acres ol wheat, 69 acres ol oats 793 acres of other crops, mainly soil;-: hum and millet. Tins is a fail time foi takings crop census, as winter needing I* ended, CROPS Now GROWING IN IMPERIAL YAI.I.KY Other Fanner Barley Wheat Oats Alfalfa Crops m 11. Soutltwick 30 Scolt A Th.ivcr 80 Pern Brothers ho <> A. w. Patton 30 Hat-court Peck 100 Harry Cross 4 4 2 Hutitiiigloii McKusick 60 40 (• 25 8 Van Horn Brothers 32 20 40 Jacob Stoner HO 45 70 T. ii. McHarg ho -us W. S. Wilkius <»0 20 P. J. Storms 10 Arthur ft wins 30 .•••• Byron B. Rice 40 A". H. Rehkoph 60 Henry J. Wilson 10 Peter Hames..... 25 40 60 123 Rev. J. H. Huston no 20 5 5 30 .1. M Cluvk » 25 10 Prof. Bisaon 90 1° W. Clark 25 2 5 Mr. Baker ......... l 0 Albert Hart.'.....*. IS 5 20 S. W. Mitchell 8 t 15 Thomas Johnson 5 5 5 MM. Harovit* ••• 30 5 T. P. Bauta 60 25 40 60 160 Arthur Fuller 40 10 V. K. Brooks 15 30 N. C. Power 1(1(> Rev. J. W. Shenok 100 W. W. Masten 200 80 10 80 John Norton *0 K. Steiner.. 10 10 Cameron Lake Cattle Co 40 KiO Kd«ar Hroih.M-s 90 85 J.I). A brains 10 10 25 Oakley Paulln Co 200 8 3 Joseph KaeU..... 40 Frank (J. Johnson 21 W. F. Ollletl 100 35 18 3 .1. H. McKiui 240 W. K. Hari 160 Hurt I«. Young 10 J. H. Holland .10 20 P. Kiedel 1° Joseph Treshill 60 8 1). i;. Whiting ••• - HH> .1. W. McCain 40 "° H. J. Breese 4 4 (> .1. W. McCoy "° 60 Thomas Beach 90 W J. First 20 20 Calexico Cattle Co 70 F. ii. Havens 200 J. Kckert l > I. K. Stack 200 l. W. Cart 00 A. T. Plath 4^ Plath A Preston -4 ■ • i.. a. Balsley 4 4 4 ».>•;»« Total acres 3,572 391 69 1,488 793 Best That Has Happened The most low down newspaper on .■.nth is th<- Imperial Press. tl Is printed 74 feel below sea level. Mesa, Arizona. Free Press Correct. Hut, see here, the Imperial i>i> • is for all that a 'wav-up news paper.oneof the best of our exchanges. The next "lowe*t«down" publication is Toe Submarine, the bett thing that ever happened. It is printed 22 feet bilow sea-level, hidlo Submarine. and miner Reeding' lias barely begun. Preparations are making for putting in ,1 large summer crop, and the acre* age under cultivation will probably be more than doubled in the next three months. Heretofore there has been no care ful estimate made of the acreage under cultivation-, and the guesses made have ranged from 3,000 to 5,000. Il now seems as 1 1 tough the total acreage of cropa grown this year would range from 15,000 to 25,000 acres, which ought to make the valley self support ing, so far as stock feed is concerned during the coming winter. (following is a list of the farmers now growing crops in the valley, tak ing in all the COUIItry under the irri gation system: I dqar Brothers' Store The adobe store building of Ed par Brothers, on West Right h street, was completed and occupied this week with .1 stock of hardware and agricultural implements. This is the second busi ness house on Kighth street, which many persons believe is to be a rival of Imperial avenue for leadership in business. NOTICK~-Parties found cutting timber around Blue lake will be pros ecuted. BLUE I.AKK LAND A TOWN CO. * JMPKKIAL PRESS RICE (MUM The ground is well plowed any time after the harvest. Then it is re-plowed, if necessary and harrowed in the spring before planting. In these op 'orations gang-plows, and disc-harrows with from three t<» six mules or horses J are used. As there is from six t<> eight months to do this work, there is no need for hurry. So it may be care fully and thoroughly done. Next Comes the planting, using seed drills made or adjusted for the purpose. This work may be spread over from two to three months, making one man properly equipped, able to handle at least one hundred acres. The ground should be rolled just before seeding, because a Her planting the use of ani mals on the Held should be prohibited, as they tramp much of the seed to such a depth as to materially affect the stand. From one to three bushels of seed are applied to each acre. Drill lug requires less seed than broadcast ing, because the seeds are all planted at a uniform depth. This applies also to all kinds of grains. After seeding, if the soil is not moist enough to bring the rice up properly, a light flooding is demanded. When the rice is 7 to 8 inches high, it should be Hooded to a depth of 3 to ta inches continuously until lime to withdraw the water so the (pound may harden ready for the harvest. The more uniform the depth of water maintained, the more uniform the period of ripening. It is important that the rice farm be divided into sev eral small lields, each to be separately planted and separately Hooded. This prevents tot) great a rush at harvest ing. These fields should be of such size that each one may be planted within four da ys at most. Kach field Should be flooded as uniformly as pos sible, that the ripening may be uni form. Kice should be harvested as soon as the straw begins to turn yel low. Ii cutting is delayed many heads may fall to the ground, and the har vester will cut the straw, leaving the grain on the ground; also if cutting is not promptly done, the fully ripened grain falls out and is wasted. The bi-products of rice are valuable and may be used in a variety of ways. The straw. As a feed for stock, rice straw is about equal to the best prairie hay. containing 4.72 per cent of crude protein; 32.21 per cent, of carbo-hy drates, and 1.37 per cent. fats. When well cured and preserved all kinds of hay eating stock are very fond of it and will eat large quantities of it. Dr. Stubbs, Director of the Louisiana Ex periment station, s.ivs rice straw is wort hat the average price of hay for a period of years, {9.13 per ton. In the rice fields thousands of tons are burned every year because it is in the way. This emphasizes the fact that cattle should lie fed on the rice farms, or straw baled and shipped to the nearest and best market. Some of the rice farmers have adopted the former COUrte, and after the rice harvest large herds of improved cattle can be seen in the stubble fields and in pens, cov ering their ribs with the digested nu trients of rice straw. The estimates herein contained are of the contained nutrients only as determined at the Louisiana experiment station and elsewhere. As no digestion experi ments have been made of the straw, or any hi-product of rice, this ba>i> of value may not be strictly accurate. These substances are assumed to pos >e>s the same factor of digestibility as similar bi-produets of wheat and other grains. Kice Bran. This product contains 12.1 per cent, protein; 8.8 per cent, fat, and 59.4 per cent, biber and carbo-hy drates, and is assigned a feeding value Of $20.18 per ton. Wheat bran con tains 11.5 per cent, protein and 25.3 per cent, carbo-hydrates and fat. Kice Polish. This is a tine flour like substance removed from the rice in polishing the product to suit the fashion that demands the polished grain and is really the most nutritious portion of it as shown by the analysis. It contains 11.7 per cent, protein; 7.3 percent, fat. and 64.3 per cent, fiber and carbo-hydrates, and is valued by the Department of Agriculture at 521. 55 per ton. Nice hulls. This product has a very low feeding value and is of more value as a fertilizer than as a food for stock. For their fertilising properties, alone, the hulls are not worth as much as the labor of hauling and spreading, but for their mechanical effect combined with their slight fertilizing properties. are valued at $8.34 per ton. They are also useful as a mulch for garden plants. The hulls have been used largely as a fuel at the rice mills, and the ashes applied to the soil as a fertil izer. The fact is, hull ashes are very pom in both potash and phosphoric acid, containing ,93 per cent, of the former and .82 per cent of the latter, far inferior to any class of wood ashes. Rice hulls, however, combined with some sort of meal containing more al buminoids may be made into a valu able food. The mills are becoming posted on the values of these rice bi prodUCts, and that which was formerly permitted to go to waste or wa» used as fuel is now being prepared for the market in forms valuable to the feeder. Farm and Ranch* LANDS Or THE WEST A Washington dispatch says: The beef trust is working day and night to secure the passage of the bill provid ing for the leasing of grazing lands of the west to stockmen at two cents per acre for a period of ten years. Wash ington is overrun with lobbyists sent here by the trust and the big cattle men of the west to work for the meas ure, and they are displaying a pernic ious activity in the interests of their em plovers. The trust lias also suc ceeded in enlisting the aid of a number of federal ofiice holders from western states, and the presence here of these men and their open advocacy of the measure is causing considerable com ment, not altogether favorable. Commissioner Hermann a week ago characterized the scheme of the cattle men as "graft, pure and simple," and strongly protested before the house committee against favorably reporting the measure. He declared that the passage of the bill would result in in calculable injury to the development of the west and would mean the ruin of the small stockholders. A delega tion of the big cattlemen of the west is now in the city to supplement the efforts of the beef trust to force the bill through congress. The trust is vigorously opposing the national irrigation act because it fears that it will result in cutting up the big cattle ranges into small holdings, which, of course, the men whose wealth is represented by immense herds of cattle are anxious to prevent. The cattlemen openly boast that stock is high and they purpose to keep the price where it is if such a thing is pos sible. If they can graze their cattle on the millions of acres of unoccupied government land for the next ten years at a nominal rental they can safely count on a continuation of immense profits. Store Sold \Y. I>. Montgomery has bought the store of C. K. Scott, opened a few days since, which he has consolidated with his own stock. The completion of the addition to the store has enabled Mr. Montgomery to install a much larger stock of merchandise.