The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1886-07-17
MOHAWK MURMERs.
Fact and Fancies Found Floating and
Faberized by A. Scralnbier.

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| BY reason of very generous invitation
to write something, 'tno matter what, from
Mohawk, will have TO inform you that rve
tried and can't do fought to have known
better than to make the effort, for well do
remember in school boy days lang syne.
Always by some hook or crook,
Whether | wrote or not, no matter what
'eer | had to say,
Always a licking got on composition day.
The work here this season of prospective
rsnchers pomologists, ETC., has been expert
mental and the knowledge gained mostly Of
a negative character; in most cases having
learned how not to do it, but viii not have
to learn it again.
In early spring the ground being more or
less saturated with rain water all seeds ger
inmate quickly; plants grow vigorously un-
til irrigation becomes necessary with water
from wells or other sources, however slight
ly impregnated with salt or other minerals,
which gradually destroys most plants and
trees. Among the exceptions may be men
toned irish potatoes, melons of all kinds,
pumpkins squashes, tomatoes, etc. The ex-
traordinary tu;ckness and fertility of the
soil is proved by record of dates of the
| planting and maturing of different seeds ETC.,
always a good thing to keep for reference
in future years. For instance, on April lst,
planted Grows Of Red Wethersteld black
seed onions and il, just 90 days. without ex-
ira culture, had new irish potatoes large
enough to throw at good sized yellow dog.
| The only great enemies we have to con-
tend with are rats and rabbits, and they
are bad. The latter can be easily fenced
against with pickets or wire. Arrow weeds,
always abundant, set i'll the ground one or
two inches apart and two or three feet high,
beats them entirely. But the kangaroo rat,
with the elongated spanker boom, orament.
ed with brush of long hair, willgo through
over or under anything yet invented, except
my newspaper fence, find the SENTINEL
just the thing for this purpose, but only get
a copy once a month";. This is the fence:
drive stakes at convenient distances, fold
paper once and tack the same to stake edges
tops little higher than stakes, cover the
bottom with earth, tighten to prevent yibra
ton by sticking arrow weeds on both sides
alternately, making them little shorter than
fence, and for fear the paper should spoil
paint them well with kerosene oil [ have
MELONS and some other things thus protect
ed for the past six weeks.
There are several musical snakes here,
but if properly managed they do no harm;
we seldom kill single specimen, but ell
ways wait until they get into covies like
quails, or rows like the regulars. A very
reliable neighbor of mine, (he had cousin
once who studied for the ministry, says
that he killed, or counted, forget which, III
dozens of them before breakfast, and didn't
have much of breakfast either. More
than snakes enough to enclose with a live
fence all the land they grow on, bat horrors
what fence, both offensive and defensive
l heard old Capt. Smith say the other day,
but think its lie, that to have some fun be
tied two of them together by their tails and
turned them loose, that to his surprise the
larger Immediately swallowed the lesser one
and not knowing the combination continued
the feast until both had disappeared from
the face of the earth as did one of Nortons
teams the other day, when it fell into rat
hole. Speaking of rats and l say it is not
profanity, but piously, fervently, frequent
ly, Dam the rats" Not being carniverous
they can't be disposed of in pairs like the
snakes, but it is probable that the first flood
that sweeps from the canal will drown or
drive them away. In the mean time if the
''Topics of Tacna, or anyone else will in
vent something that is bad for them, him,
he or they will be remembered in our devo-
tions when we devote which it is to be hop
ed some of us will before the days and nights
get much long in this happy land
Where tame coyotes never bark
Where stalks the stalwart Boojam Shark,
Where the American Eagle folds its wings
While the Fillillu bird sweetly sings to
A. SCRAMBLER.