Arizona republican., 1898-04-27

on Adams street.
 MT. Chris Miller and family have lived five years on the Maricopa canal, two miles southwest of Alhambra. The forty acres of MT. Miller is principally in alfalfa, a little in wheat, and or chard and garden. The very comfort able home is presented to view and contentment pervades the locality.
 Down a road beyond Miller's is D. B. Heard's sixty acres, and on this land alfalfa and hogs are the attrac- tions. A very pretty home is seen, like MT. Heard drives to town daily and abides in the Fleming block.
 The estate of Anderson Root is on the Maricopa canal three miles west of Alhambra. Widow Anderson is as sisted in the management of the home stead by her sons, Charles and Ralph. The eighty acres is largely in alfalfa
 The elder Kay and his wife are occupants of neat frame house situ- ated one mile north of Alhambra. A quarter section is in cultivation, alfalfa being most cultivated. An attractive front presents itself as you enter the premises. The boys, Will and Frank, are on a section below Glendale and the place will come into notice here after. The Kay family, who have been in the valley eleven years, came from Illinois.
 Chase Purdy has fifty acres in or chard and nursery. The fruits com prise apples, pears, peaches, apricots nectarines, plums and almonds. MT. Purdy was busy looking after the wa ter runs when I called and invited me to look at the young and growing trees in particular. MT. Purdy came ! to Phoenix in the winter with trees and makes numerous deals. His place is one mile north Of Alhambra. ! He has been in the valley nine years and at the present quarters seven years. MT. Purdy is an authority on horticulture and has written consid- erable on the subject.
 At the ostrich farm, One-fourth Of mile north of Alhambra, eight youngsters of the species have put in an app earance within eight days. Three of the infants s-e but two days old. Two years hence the sex of the recent arrivals will be definitely known providing they remain on this mundane sphere. The female bird wears brown plumage, while the boss of the range disports black coat which engages the attention of the ladies to an alarming extent. The ostrich was brought into this world to please the ladies-and the man who appears on dress parade as side issue to some secret order. The os- trich is a kicker and does it with a f<, o,.d of the human race does his with his mouth. The ostrich has a faculty Of initiating a steer when in a boistrous mood. Both male and female at ma turity are hearty eaters and take things down bodily and the digestive organs dc the rest. Their diet Is much in line with that enjoyed py poultry. The little fellows eat rolled oats and light diet and like children are partial to Castoria. The demand for the latter Of late has about ex- hausted the supply of Dr. Good lander, the local druggist
 Every eight months the big fel- lows Of both sexes are plucked and for the royal plumage the owner gets from s14 to s60 per pound in Califor- nia and in the east. The eggs go a, 50 cents but not so if fertile, when many dollars are a modest figure for the fruit Some parties in Illinois had an incubator and they undertook to convey two three-months-old chicks to that state The birds caught cold en route, and died on reaching thelr destination. From twenty to eighty acres are at the disposal of the birds, pens being arranged according to cer- tain conditions. The original num- Der was three, nineteen ar irving nine years ago, and the oldest is a back number Of the male persuasion-a native of Africa Parties bringing in the nineteen lost sixteen and MT. Harbert of Phoenix got the others for $1,200 per pair and the chick for a slight sum. The old chap and the chick survive, the hen dying through some cause after To- eating at A1hambra. There are e1gh- ty-five birds on the ranch including the babies first mentioned.
 PITTOCK.
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