Arizona republican., 1895-09-25

produce new potatoes in April and are ripe in May. Cabbage plants should be put out in October; they will be ready for use in the winter, spring and following summer Tomato plants may be set out in March and they will produce ripe fruit all the following summer, and they may be grown perennially thereafter, produc- ing all the time with slight protection in the winter. Celery should be planted in October and it will then be ready for market in the winter, spring and following summer. Onions should be sown as early as convent ent in the autumn and they will be ready for market the following winter, spring and summer Indian corn may be planted in March and it will be ripe in June; and again planted in July and will be ripe in October. After the crop of barley, wheat or oats shall have been harvested in the summer field is frequently planted in corn, potatoes or sorgum, which crops ripen in the fall in time to re-seed the same land again with another crop, Sweet potatoes and peanuts are planted in March and April and ripen in summer the same ground may then be re-seeded in other l crops, which, in turn, will be harvested later. Melons, pumpkins, squashes, cucumbers, eggplant and all that class of produce are very profitable and the seeds may be planted in early spring and produce returns in sixty or ninety days thereafter. Beans yield two crops a year on the same ground Sugar cane planted in the winter yields a crop in the following summer and will continue perennially. Rad | ishes, lettuce, onions, parsley, peas, string beans, green corn and almost every vegetable, green and fresh, may be kept growing in the garden the year around and gathered for each meal as required. All kinds of poultry may | be matched and raised successfully in the open air in the fall, spring and all ! winter, doing better than in summer. Butter making and dairy business is very profitable the year around.
 From the foregoing facts it would seem that the most favorable time for the new settler to arrive in Salt River valley would be in the early fall, or at least in the early winter months. But of course, it is safe for him to come at any time of the year. The winter cli- 1 mate is very like the month of June in the eastern states, Ontario and Quebec. The second question above, viz: How much money would be required to enable the new settler in this Ely sian valley of the Salt river to make a l in |. land?" is practically and logically ans Wered by the foregoing facts when it IS added that there is good market TOT the above named products and that he may acquire all the land he will need for less than 1000, as he need not necessarily pay all the purchase money for his land at once; but it will
 be easier for him if he shall have more. Rates of interest on money are high as compared with older communi- ties, and in case he shall buy land on credit 1t will cost him more than if he shall pay cash. Small farms are very profitable. Twenty to forty acres are
 sufficient for any one family, and will
 produce more profit than farms o1
 rom 100 to 200 acres in Canada or any
 of the eastern states in the Union
 The farmer coming here in October
 November or first part of December
 can immediately start to put in his
 crop for the coming year. His house
 can consist of canvas tent in whicf
 himself and family can live in perfecr
 safety pending their decision as tt
 what kind of house they will built
 later on.