The Coconino sun. [volume] (Flagstaff, Ariz.) 1891-1891, 1891-07-25

deem the cultivable Arsa small indeed.
As to that, we estimated the cultiva-
ble area within radius of Is miles
from Flagstaff at 10000 acres, just
about 6ye per cent; that gives US room
for five hundred farmers with forty
acres each, about the proper amount to
each one, and about the, limit averaged
on q quarter-section. Think what
difference that would make to bring in
that many families; and each one
could and would clear from $40 to $50
and more per acre.
We have about four miles from town
two farmers who commenced their cul-
ttivation in the season Of 1888, with no
other capital than their labor, and
from its results they have paid for
their places, have them well improved,
and, besides being out Of debt, have
money ahead. THIS; on places where
water has to be hauled for house and
stock use during part of the year-and
there are hundreds of better places
about. ,.~ ...
OF potatoes they raise Early Rose,
growing Z tons to the acre; White
Star, 8 tons; Peerless and Triumph,
each 10 tons, and new variety, called
by them the Pinto running II tons to
the acre. The Pinto is an early po-
tato, large and longish-shaped, "pied"
with white and pink spots From six
acres last year their crop of potatoes
was 30 tons, selling at an average Of
S22 per ton. g..
Of oats they raise the White Won
der and Targets White Sizure, va
riety sent out by the Department of
Agriculture last year, a good grain for
oatmeal, and which produced ten
bushels from four pints But the Side
Oats are chief. They are from France,
are well adapted to dry country,
standing drouth well, just late enough
to get the benefit OF fall rains, but
ripen before the frosts kill, grow six
feet high, with heads IA to lS inches
long. From 80 pounds, after chickens
had destroyed some, were threshed out
IS bushels.
Of wheats, tho Velvet Chat, need
ing other soil, does not do SO we'll as
the Assiniboine Valley or the White
Spring, which is a fine producer, not a
tall wheat, but with six-inch heads.
Their best wheat, though, is of un-
known variety. 1t is beardless wheat
of blush appearance in field, easily
distingui hable from other wheats, is
very prolific, as many as 81 heads
coming from one grain; Of rank growth,
making excellent forage, just late
enough to hit our rainy season best,
hardy, grain twice as large as other
wheats, and produces 80 to 40 bushels
to the acre. In this country wheat
grain ripens while che stalk is still
green. "
Corn, as well as wheat and oats,
stools out here, the best variety being
the Black Mexican; sugar corn rec,
commended by the Department of Ag,
riculture. From one grain will spring
five stalks, bearing i've to nine ears
each. All cora here grows low, and
not much is wasted in stalk. Indian
corn will run 35 bushels to the acre.
OF grasses, alfalfa, mlllet, Hungarian
grass and oat grass do well. Alfalfa
cuts a ton to the acre for three cut.
tings per year; millet does especially
well, growing six feet high with heads
nine and ten inches long, and yielding
four to six tons per acre.
OF field beans, the Yellow and the
Red Speckled bunch beans produce rs
to 80 bushels to the acre, marketing
at five cents per pound. English field
peas produce abundantly, and all gar.
den peas grow finely.
Rutabagss are immense, growing as
high as fifteen tons per acre, and sell
ing at cent a pound for COW feed.
Artichokes do well, and turnips run
seven tons per acre, selling at $40 per
acre for COW feed, and retailing early
in the season at two cents per pound,
Of vegetables, cabbage, carrots, beets,
sugar beets. onions, cucumbers, squash,
pumpkins, oyster plant, radishes, let
tuce, rhubarb, asparagus, horseradish.
watermelons and cantaIopes all produce
abundantIy and of good quality.
Another well known ranchman,
from paintings Of 's7 has, within five
miles of Flagstaff, good crops Of Red
English currants, Wilson and Yale
straw berries, and lots Of Snyder black,
berries. ~Heshas siso sritzenberg and
Red Astrakan apples, the latter this
year bearing fruit, now in good growth.
These statements are made upon
facts, and all these matters have passed
beyond the merely experimental stage
Experiments are being made with
other vegetables, grains and grasses,
with grapes, pears and other fruits, of
which. we expect a good report in due
season.
With proper care the second crop is
better than tha@ first, the third better