Salt River herald., 1878-01-26
FARM AND PRESIDE.
Items Of Interest To Salt
 River Farmers.
Facts Concerning Our Valley What It will Produce-Firsside Items,

The amount of rich agricultural and farming land in the Territory is from fifteen to twenty million acres, but Aing to a scarcity of water for irrigation, there is susceptible for cultivation but about two million eight hundred thousand acres.
 The largest tract of agricultural land which can be cultivated in this Territory is that ou the Salt river, in and around Phoenix for a distance of from twenty to fifty miles. The amount of such land in this rich valley is approximately one million of acres. Nearly one-kaE of the best land in the Territory. The soil is a rich alluvium, capable of producing, with good tillagc, twenty five to fifty bushels of wheat, barley, and corn to the acre. We will de- vote these two columns weekly to the best interest of the Farm and Preside, and aim to make it instruct i've, entertaining and attractive. In- serting only such as will be of gen. eral interest to our readers. We ask your cooperation to this end, write out you experiences and any facts you may have discovere Our column will never be too crowded 10 give such letters insertion.
 CoRN AID Hoo s.-Ffom carefully conducted experiments by different persons, it has been asccrtaincd that one bushel of corn will make little more than ten pounds of pork, gross. Taking the result as a basis, the fol lowing deductions arc made, which all our farmers would do well to lay byfor convenient reference-tlat:
 When corn sells at 121 cents per bushel pork costs 1sc per pound.
 When corn sells at IT cents per brshel. pork costs % per pound.
 When corn costs 25c per bushel pork cost Sc per pound.
 When corn costs 33c per bushel, pork cost 4 cents per pound.
 When corn costs soc per buslel pork costs SC per pound.
 The following statements show what the farmer will realize on his corn when sold in the form of pork.
 When pork sells at Sc per pound, it brings 25c per bushel in corn.
 When pork sells at 4c per pound, it brings 32c per bushel in corn.
 Wien pork sells at sc per pound, 1t brings 45 cents per bushel ill corn.
 STORING POTATOES. - Every method has been tried by farmers to store and preserve their potatoes through the winter, and we may gay until potatoes come again. It is the most valuable of all vegetables, though here and tEcre VIC find a per son and a writer who undertakes to tell us of its unwholesomeness. Ii IS universally consumed in all civil. ized countries, as where it cannot be grown it is imported, which can be done long distances without injury when ventilation is attended to. h storing potatoes several methods arc adopted, yet they are all practically tbe same, the object being to protect them against freezing, whether buried iE pits or stored in cellars. The first consideration is to keep then in perfect darkness, the next is tht bins should not be too deep-not over three .feet-to produce warmth and cause them to sprout. Wher stored in the field straight trenche: are dug, say twenty feet in lcngtl and four or five wide, which art filled to the depth of three feet witl potatoes, then we'll covered witl straw, on top of which put eighteer or twenty inches of earth. In a pit twenty feet long there should be about three gas escapes or ventilla ting openings, which should be plugged with straw and covered with a board to turn the rain. Ii in cellars, barn or otherwise, the bin. should be covered with rags old car peting or straw. Those intended tc be kept for late spring sales should be frequently examined and all sprouts removed, for as soon as a DO tato begins to sprout it loses it's SO lidity, dryness and quality.
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