Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-10-21
AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION.
Annual Meeting Being Held in
 Phoenix Today,
Interesting Papers and Discussions on Various Su9jeets-PersOnnal
 of the Attendance.

The annual meeting of the Arizonl
 Agricultural Association convened 1T
 the county court room this morning
 with President WiIlism Stowe Devol
 presiding.
 The meeting had bsen advertised tc
 take place in the oity hall, bus when
 President Dsvol arrived on the scene
 and noticed the confuson and dismantl-
 ed condition prevailing, he adjourned
 the session to the county court house. 1 The members and spectators were | therefore elow in assembling end 1t was
 Il o'clock before the president called | themesting to oFder.J H MoClintock, in
 the sbaenoe of Secretary Charles M
 PuGh, acted aa secretary and read the minutes Of the meeting of ore year age. Mrs. s D Lount who year ago,
 gave sr admirable paper on date eul-
 ture, read tha fsst paper this year, on the same subject, detailing additional facts coming under her observations. She thought that date culture promised
 to be one of the most profitable crops
 in the valley. She mentioned in detail the location of date palms now growing in she Salt River Valley and their own CTS.
 E L Arthur of Tempe was called upon 50 give talk On date culture. He placsd on exhibit leFge bunch of datss weighing between ten and twelve pounds. Mir Arthur said this palm fruited in three years, which, he said. vas an unusually short period. An in teresbine discussion of the various va rietiss of date palms then followed.
 INV Adams of Glendale, who has several date pslms on his ranch, stated that his trees have produced over three hundred pounds each. In hie nursery he has several thouserd young trees about ths size of lead pencil.
 Professor Clefiln Fesd letter from Professor A A Wheeler Of 1920 Jack l son stEser, San Francisco, who is giving | the subieo6 of date culture spscial at- tentioa snd Is ao acknowledged suthor- ity ou the ssbjsot iu thia country. Pro lessor Wheeler stated, he said, that l Arizona has the best clinls5e in the United States for date culture.
 Dr.. Clgtiin read B paper on the sub feet: 'Yaris5is of Grapes for Arizona" There sre about one hnndred varieties | 1f grapes bsisg grown at the Phoenix experimental station, he said. This paper was mainly description of these gEFleties end thsiE adaptabilIty to Southern Arizona. He said in con ;lusion: My experience with the growing of grapes in Arizona convinces ne that taeFe are varieties fitted for sll the purposes for which there may B 8 demand, which will grow and pear so well Shat they may be proftsbly ocated here. The tins should soon be when Arizona grapes will find us wide ] market sud be in as great demand as hose of our neighboring state of Oeli- ornie."
 H " Adams gave his experience in ,rspe culture and highly euelogizsd the nhompson'e Seedless. "I sold this -ear,' he said, ''55, ,64S worth of Thomp- on's Ssedless grgpes of of eighty acres f vineyard. They were mostly Feisins, evsn carloads of which have been hipped from Glendale station. I re- sivsd four cents per pound for the ,7odueb. If I had waited until ths ew tariff law vent into effect, I be- evs I would have msds $1000 more. Tor shs several carloads of fresh grapes | hipped I received wholesale one cent ound :" ? Mg. Adams said his. experience with 2 be Muecst had not bSen favorable and hree hundred scree now planted ,ould be pullsd up by the roots this 'intsr and planted in Thompson \ sedless.