The Arizona sentinel., 1895-03-02

OAO O4 plOOuOIuS, anu plOuuClui
 now, such crops and in such mum
 bers, as an eastern farmer nevel
 dreamt of. Twenty feet deep
 have seen these soils at place
 where the arroyos, or dry wate
 courses, had made an opening
 There is no occasion for rotation O
 crops here, no sub-soil cultivation
 no single season of sowing and
 harvest, simply turn on the water
 at stated intervals and, in the
 perpetual sunshine, one crop sue ceeds another as fast as they can grow. Rain, in the estimation O
 these farmers, is a drawback. II only interferes with outdoor work
 A MODERN GARDEN OF EDEN.
 What grows under these condi- tions2 It would be easier to emu merate what does not grow. Every fruit, vegetable and grain that thrives under temperate or semi tropical conditions is here in lux uriance. Oranges, lemons, Times, figs, dates, peaches, pears, apricots, pomogranates, prunes, grapes, all of which can be placed on the market from a month to six weeks ahead of those from any other sec- tion, as the famous coast fruit country is beginning to realize to it's cost. and all of which are in bearing order one season earlier after setting out than in either southwestern California or Florida. From my own observation I should say that this would some day be pre-eminently the lemon and lime growing center of the world. l cut from tree few days ago a single lemon that weighed 8& ounces. The branches of that tree were propped up with forked sticks to help sustain their loads of fruit and the lemon I cut off was not apparently superior to many others surrounding it. I have seen 8 lemon here that weighed 19 ounces. That was, of course, a monstrosity, and it's flavor was probably not by any means equal to that of the ordinary run of the fruit, which is claimed to be unsurpassed. The skin, after the sweating" process is complete, is about as thick as 8 playing card. The smaller fruit and berries might be said t9 grow ad hbituna; one crop succeeds an- other just as quickly as time will allow. None of them could proper ly be said to have season, in the sense that the word is used in the north. They mature at any time of the year. The same applies to grain and grasses. A farmer who does not get six crops of hay off his land every year thinks there is something wrong; and it must be remembered that with these people energy is at a large discount and work of any kind is very serious burden. They have yet to learn all that savers of agricultural enterprise.
 WHAT IRRIGATION HAS ACCOMPLISHED.
 South of Yuma a couple of miles, on the noted "Algodones grant," is the ranch of an irrigation company that has, with it's settlers, all told, some 800 acres under cultivation. of it's own there are 200 acres, mostly in grapes, apricots, peaches and pears. I walked through this orchard with 8 gentleman who for several years past has had ex- perience with the best fruit lands of western California. It was his opinion that the latter could not produce it's equal. Still nearer to the town, and further up on the mesa, is the ranch of Massachutts man, who has recently interested himself in irrigation, as a side is- sue, so to speak, of his mining en- terprises near by. He has 12O acres under cultivation, principal ly in oranges, lemons, grapes and small vegetables; and adjoining is tbe agricultural experiment. station of Arizona territory, to which l be- fore referred, established in the fall of 1892. Both are as yet in their infancy, but both are to all appear ances fourishing; and on them l picked and ate strawberries and some of the smaller vegetables in nid-Iannarv- growing in the omen