Arizona citizen., 1875-10-16
LETTER FROM COL. HODGE.
His Treatment at Certain Places Poor Crops nt San Pedro Caused by Destructive Fin e nafrW
TrcsoN. October 12. 1s15.

TUcsoN, October 12, 1875. i ED. CITIZEN: After five months of rambling, I find myself back in Tue IsOn, at the Cosmopolitan, which under the new management of Mir. Wilt and his energetic wife, holds out induce ments of home comforts equal to any public house in the Territory.
 Fly the kindness of Lieut. Adams, was enabled to leave Camp Grant the 7th ultimo on NIT. Morril's blackboard, the Lieutenant furnishing a pair oi mules to go as far as Point of Noun tair, twenty-two miles almost due south of Camp Grant, at which place the Clifton, Pueblo Viejo and Camp Grant mail route intersects the great San Diego and Mesilla mail route My stay of e few days was made very pleasant at Mir Bucks hospitable home. The Point of Mountain station, twenty two miles south of Camp Grant and forty west of Camp Bowie, Is kept by Messrs. Steele & McKinzie who have a rood cook and where the weary, hungry traveller can get good meal. From Point of Mountain to Tres Ala mos. on the San Pedro, distance of thirty-two miles south of west, we make in six hours, and here, owing to fatigue and weakness, I stopped for three days at OIr Dunbar's who keeps the station, DOS office, etc, and where, having the best of food, prepared by the competent Mrs. Dunbar, nice cozy room, and a clesn bed, enjoyed my stay very much.
 The crops at Tres Alamos, I am sorry to report are not as good as they promised to be three months ago, at my former visit. The barley owing to several causes was but half crop, and now the corn and potatoes are par tially ruined by two species of worms which are proving very destructive. They are both entirely new to me. The corn worm is white, with dark specks, having a hard chocolate colored head and is an inch in length. Itcommences is ravages at the root, boring into tine center of the stalk and thence up to the root of the setting ear and eating out the chit thus completely killing inc ear. I examined several fields and iou5d them all seriously injured, there being on many of the largest stalks no ears at all, and on others bu' one, where there would have been two or three. The farmers are now harvesting the corn and in the whole valley, l judge there will not be over 3000O0 pounds where there would have been but for the ravages of this worm, at leas, 5OO,OO0 pounds.
 The potato worm is of a yellow color, halfinch in length. and it com monces it's ravages also at the root and wi.l its hard pointed head, borcs its way up through the main vine and all he large lateral branches and thus wholly kills both top and bot.om of the potato. There were over fifty acres in ali planted with potatoes, and an ordinary fair yield would have been COCO pounds to the acre or total of G00O00 pounds, whereas owing to the .avagcs of this worm. there will not be over 50,OOO pounds. The resu q k the destruction of lho many brigi | hores of the farmers of T-as Alamo.
 ,hn will have hard times for the en- suing year. It is to be hoped fha. those who make th.s matter a study. will examine into the subject and devise some mems ;o rid tha farmers of these pests, and prevent their spread over the Territory. IL is a matter of vital interest to all, and unless a remedy be found, will seriously retard the de- velopment of every portion of the Ter ritory and embarass every productive interest and be the cause of much sui fering among farmers.
 The Kimberlin Dairy ranch at Tres Alamos, I found in tiptop condition. The proprietors, Messrs. Hooker & Kimberlin, are milking sixty-tive cows and are making a most excellent article of rich, yellow butter equal 10 that found in the best Eastern markets. They have ready sale for all they make at seventy-five cents per pound, and could sell quadruple the amount if they had it. They are perfecting the arrangements for cheese making an- other year with a large increase of milch COWS. I heard a rumor that owing to the. pressure of other busi- ness, this tirst-class ranch is for sale. If so, there is a fine opportunity for some party to purchase a we'll estab- lished business with a choice lot of stock, some of which has been select led from the choicest blooded herds in the States. H. c. HODGE.
 FROM The Grant County Herald of