Salt River herald., 1878-03-16
FARM AND GARDEN. Arizona as d Farming
 Country.
MORE GARDEN THAN DESERT
Coffee Culture in California-The Importance of Tree Plant
 ing-Corn Fuel

The other day we took stroll by some of the ranches in the valley below town, just to inform ourself how our farmers were progressing with their work and what were their prospects for the season. We could not have undertaken more pleasant tIsk. The great fields of barley are as fresh and vigorous as Could be wished. The alfalfa is thick and strong and in a few weeks will be ready for the sickle, the peach trees are literally covered with blossoms, the grape vines and roses are putting forth their hardy shoots and everything if the veg etable kingdom seems fresh and new
 One could scarcely imagine, amid all this wealth of vegetation that he was Tn the very heart of the often so-called ''dry and desert like Terri tory of Arizona" The fact is that Arizona is far from being q desert and our valley is closely allied to garden.-Citi<eR.
 CALIFORNIA COFFEE CULTURE. Coffee culture is beginning to pay, it is said, in California. No doubt the principal trouble there is a total want of experience in the management of the crop, for other
 wise everything else is favorable. The southern half of California
 has a tropical climate and a genial
 soil, so that any crop will ripen
 there. If coffee culture can become
 permanent and fourishing, the first
 aim of the San Francisco merchants
 will be to supply their own markets
 OH the west coast. It will be d
 long time before the crop will be of any importance to the Atlantic States ill competition with the pro- ducts of Brazil, Sln Domingo, Java and Venezuela, unless, indeed, things go on much faster in Califor- ma than there seems any prospect f ot The State is not yet self-sup. x plying in oranges and lemons great l quantities being imported from the . East Indies from which that StatC
 also receives its supplies of Ceylol
 and Java coffee. On the Al
 lantic side of the Republic coffe,
 will ripen in Florida and Texas
 but no progress has yet been made
 with it there. Whenever the dc
 nestle coffee interest becomes i'm , pOrtant, we shall hear q great dea 1 less clamor for the imposition of
 duty on the imported article.
 .f THE PROFIT IN TREE PLANTING
 The question of preserving forests ts year by year becoming one of grea
 CT importance in nearly every pa
 of the civilized world. The well r, er cognized connection between the e Ill tent of forest lands and the amom
 of the annual rainfall brings Il is subject home to every mind. It ge estimated that in this country l5C ,n- 900 men are employed in gettir ig- out sawed lumber alone, and tn lal the capital invested in the busine i'll, is Sl43,OOO,OOO. The woods of Maine are fast diminishing, and t SC, few trees that escape the lumbt net mans axe do not promise a reviv lile of the almost trackless forest whi ,ed the moose and deer once frequentC ,et, In 1871, in Wisconsin, 100 ch- acres were stripped to supply the ci 'm- of Chicago with lumber. At u ne, rate it is plain to see that forests . las rapidly vanishing.
 to SMALL FRUITS IN GARDENS. md But few people, says the On; A tauqua Farmer, seem to know { lty value of small fruits to a fami lies when grown in their own garde to You commence with strawberri,
 they continue about month. I
 pick, perhaps, from six to tive