Imperial press and farmer., May 03, 1902, Page 8, Image 8

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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.