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Imperial press and farmer., 1901-12-21
lndiO CdntaLOupeS.

Chicago Packer: The following tel egram from Indio, Cal, has been re- ceived by H. Woous:
 By unanimous consent melon growers at meeting today you will have a contract on Eastern ship ments. A Scarborough, president.
 This closes for Mir Woods all of his contracts for the cantaloupe output next season. He has just returned from California, and on his way out he closed all of the Rocky Ford asso- citations, viz, the Kouns-Party at Rocky Ford the Newdale Party, La Junta and Los Animos. These are the associations which were with MT. Woods last year. On his trip MT. Woods also went to Mexico where he had such fine melons year ago, and closed his contracts with the growers there. From Mexico he went to Phoe- nix, AriZ., and there he closed con- tract with the Phoenix growers for the melons next season. It was the Phoenix people who pulled away from
Imperial press and farmer., 1901-12-21

seventy-five growers. Since he left the incorporation has been made and the acreage this year wII be at least 800 as against 200 a year ago. The estimate as made up by the growers is that there will be 150 cars of mel ons to move from Indio. On every farm artesian wells have been drilled for irrigating purposes until there are now fully 1000 wells in that valley, some farms having as many as six
 Growers at Indio have arranged to import 300 Japanese to pick the melons next season. The tempera- ture ranges up to 12O degrees in the sun and a white man cannot stand to stoop all day and pick melons, As Chinese cannot be imported resort Las been maue to the Japanese, and 300 are now under contract to go to Indio and learn the melon business.
 The success of MT. Woods in secur- ing this contract is admirable. When he got to the field Ruddock & Trench, Southern California Fruit Exchange, Simpson & Hack of Los Angeles, M. O. Coggins & Go. of Pittsburg ana Eveleth & Nash of San Francisco were all competing for the business. MT. Woods does not know who secured the Western cantaloupes, but thinks Ruddock & Trench were the suc- cessful bidders. These cantaloupes come in so much earlier than any others that they bring fine prices, and last year they were by odds the best favored of any which grew.
 Next to the Indio melons in flavor last year were the MeXicans, which secured great favor in restaurants and hotels. These were shipped last year in flats, fifteen to the crate. This year
Imperial press and farmer., 1901-12-21
New Mexico Cotton

According to a correspondent of the Denver News, who writes to a New Mexico paper, experiments made this year have fully demonstrated that cot ton may be successfully grown in the Pecos Valley New Mexico, by means of irrigation. The correspondent says:
 Located 300 to 400 miles westward of the big southern rainfall cotton belt and just south of the great grain growing zone, Pecos Valley soil, with an elevation of from 2000 to 5000 feet above sea level, is producing from one to one and a half bales of cotton per acre-a return exceeding the annual average of the wide white-bolled plan tations of Louisiana, Mississippi and lne Texan Black Lands.'
 The irrigated cotton pickings Of the Carlsbad vicinity will cover about one hundred and fifty acres, the plant itself being of sturdy and spreading growth and the fleecy product of loLg lint and fine fiber, while the freedom of the cotton from rainfall or dirt stains gives 1t rare cleanliness.
 "Pecos Valley cotton culture on scale commensurate with it's natural resources means heavy shipment of raw cotton and cotton cloth the erec- ton of cotton gins, cotton mills, cot ton compressors and cotton seed oil plants and the employment of new labor.
 At the old Spanish mission of the Menardville, Tex, vicinity, cotton was canal irrigated in the seventeenth cen tury, and the same method is in use there now with a return of two bales per acre. The Menardville irrigation, however, is limited from natural causes to the water derived from a seven-mile canal and is cited here merely to Illustrate the great cotton return possible to the Pecos Valley, with It's immense and fertile expanse and copious canal supply"
Imperial press and farmer., 1901-12-21
Lots of Cards.

People would be surprised to know how many packs of cards are used annually in thIs country" said the representative of large card manu- featuring house yesterday. During the past year more than 12,000, ,000 packs were sold in the United States alone. There were made in thirty five factories, fourteen of which are To- cated in New York. London is also great card manufacturing center, and the rivalry between it and New York is very close. It Is estimated that 4,000, ,00O packs are produced in the English capital annually, and New York is a close second with 3,S50,000 packs. American cards are acknowledged to be the handsomest made in the world. and the manufacturers here were the first to introduce the round cornered style. Great improvements are made in the cards of this country year by year. while those produced in the lar ger cities of Europe appear to be about the same as those manufaC- tured at the beginning of the last cen tury. Atlanta Constitution.
Imperial press and farmer., 1901-12-21
Horace Greeley on Irrigation.

Horace Greedy once wrote book on What l Know About Farming" A. J. Pillsbury has recently discovered a copy of that book and these extracts are thoughts from the great editor on the great irrigation question of to- day Greeley said:
 Irrigation, everywhere practicable, is destined to be generally adopted and to prove signally profitable, I do not mean that every acre this (the eastern) side of the Missouri River will ever thus be supplied with water, but that some acres of every township. and of nearly every farm, should and will be. The plains of the West will in time give lessons that even the well-watered and verdurous East may read with profit. Such level
Imperial press and farmer., 1901-12-21

Hay in bales cannot be carried on horseback, for reasons that need not be mentioned, but the hay lozenge may readily be carried. To make the lozenge. hay is compressed by machin- cry into disks from twelve to eighteen inches in diameter, and two inches in thickness. The disks are packed in rolls just as candy lozenges are and are hung from the horses back in slings, one sling on each side. A sin gle disk, when cut open and loosened, makes a good square meal" for a horse or a mule.-Chicago Journal.
Imperial press and farmer., 1901-12-21

and thirsty clays as largely border Lake Champlain, for example, trav- ersed by streams from mountain ranges on either hand, will not always be owned and cultivated by men in sensible to the profit of irrigation. Nor such rich valleys as those of the Con necticut, the Kentucky and Susque- hanna be left to suffer year after year from drouth while the water which should refresh them runs idly and uselessly by. Agriculture repes innovation and loves the beaten track, but such lessons as New England has received in the great drouth of 1870 will not always be given and endured in vain"
Imperial press and farmer., 1901-12-21
Flowing By Steam.

Thomas Kerr reports having 230J acres seeded and plowed to date, with the big Barney engine, on the Kerr ranch near Riverside, which is now carrying fifty-five shears on its gangs, having increased from 43 shears up since they began. They are now blowing 15 acres an hour, or 125 acres day. It would take 100 head of horses to do the work the engine does, as it handles one ten-gang, three nine-gangs and three six-gangs- ordinary gang blows hitched to an evener. Their big barley field is all up, and as green as an onion bed. and their wheat is nicely peeping through. Pomona Review.
Imperial press and farmer., 1901-12-21

they will be shipped in standard crates the same as Rocky Fords. Fully 200 cars will be grown in the Mexican territory as against fifty last year.
 When asked as to what net prices he made last season Mr. Wood said that his melons sold for 75 cents a crate, and that every association was highly pleased with his returns. This is evident from the fact they signed contract with him again for the next seasons output. With all of these places to handle his fruit, MT. Woods total cantaloupe deal next season is likely to run to $50 cars.
Imperial press and farmer., 1901-12-21
Now It's "Hay lOIenue." '"

Army horses in the Philippines and
 in South Africa, thanks to the inven- tion of an ingenious Yankee. are now enjoying the form, if not the sub stance of kind of confectionery It is known as a hay lozenge." and owes its existence to the necessity of pro viding easy transportation for food in a country where the roads are bad.
Imperial press and farmer., 1901-12-21

There is an average of five postage stamps used every month, by every man, woman and child in the United States.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-04
DEATH OF TWO COOP CITIZENS.

Texas has, within three days, lost two well known
End highly esteemed citizens.
Captain Andy Faulkner. who died ia Chicago last
Sunday, had a host of friends who WIN remember him
with feelings Of deep regard and follow him to the
grave with genuine sorrow He was for many years "A
Citizen of Houston and prominent figure among tho
personnel of OF the most important lines of rail-
road in Texas, In his connection with which he became
identified with the development the States transpor
tation facilities Genial by nature and plain Of
ner the deserving were always of assistance at
his hands
Captain Faulkner native Of the State Of New
York, but came to Texas in 1859 before attaining his
majority. In the between the States he served in
Texas regiment OF the Confederate army, and saw
active service and hard fighting and was finally cap
tured at New Orleans. In after years he active
member of the Texas Volunteer Guard OF which he
was officer at the time Of his death
Hon L. L. Foster. who died in Dallas on Monday
last, had been in public life since 1880. Born in For
syth county, Georgia, in 1851 he landed in Texas at
the age of IS, without means Fired by noble ambi-
ton he gradually from the humber walks OF life
and enjoyed succession OF honors the hands of the
people Of Texas lie first attracted attention in the
lower house Of the legislature to which he was elected
in $780, and of which he became speaker two years
later Subsequently he filed the office of commission
er Of agriculture, his term In which followed by an
appointment TO railroad commisslonership
At the time Of his death Mr. Foster was president
of the Agricultural and Mechanical college having
been selected for that place by the board of
of that institution in 1898 to succeed Ex-Governor Ross
The reeminent success which had marked the adj.
inistraon OF the colleges affairs by his predecessor
made the task assigned to him in this difficult
But he equal to the occasion and it can be
truthfuy said OF him, which is no mean praise that
under his guidance the college maintained the high
standard OF excellence established by Ex-Governor
Ross.
Mr. Foster was a high.minded welI.eoufnned and
devoted public servant Earnest of purpose temperate
OF speech and plain of taste he had keen sppreca.
ton Of the responsibilities he called upon to
sumo. and met them with patriotic zeal
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-04

governor has begun his fight against the railroad
mates and has sent letters to the
OF North Dakota, Montana, Washington. Oregon and
Nebraska suggesting that they join him in seeing that
the law against railroad consolidation, which is the
same in their States as in Minnesota, be enforced The
governor of Nebraska has already been heard from.
He has declared that Nebraska will not take back
seat in the enforcement Of the law"
The railroad people claim that there has been no
consolidation that the Northern Securities company
formed and the stock of the two roads is to
be exchanged for shares in the company. The
railroad people that no law can prevent SO simple
operation such exchange.
The Minnesota authorities however claim that this
is merely an evasion of the law and recall the fact that
consolidation of the same roads prevented few
years ago by an action which finally taken to the
supreme court OF the United States.
Says the Minneapolis Times;
III the governor succeeds in dissoyins this merger and
bringing naught this npudent effort TO set the law or
the defiance will do the railways and the stock
holders thereof great service II the laws we nave now
are not sufficient 10 S gaqg nfFae 81 the Of t the
gn,' OF Ss g c peop Who under oa form Of
ment make the laws will pass others effective more
hin and coadjuors would the ills they have
ills only in of preed-han fly to others that they
know Of hut imagine.
There is nothing to despair Of II the situation This IS
mllonare He and they have taken counsel together and
Of great lawyers They determined that competition shall
the Mississippi to the peaceful They will be defeated
Mr. Hill aoreme There attempts against Jus
tice patiently and eveastngY wrong that they must
fail The consolidation of the Northern Pacific and the
Great Northern properties patiently and eyerastngy wrong
and be permitted Governor Van SAINT will be Justi-
fed Of the people honorable methods pursued TO pre-
vent this blow against trade against fairness against law
The Wall Street Journal seems to think that the way
for the railroad companies is to make people be
lieve that they he well treated and that the ad
vantages Of monopoly accrue to them in the form Of
cheap transportation and that it this is done, the
monopoly will stand regardless Of the laws the
statute books This utterance Of the Wall Street Jour
nal he taken as indication of how badly scared
the railroad magnates at the resoute night inaugu
rated by Governor Van SAINT.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-04

Agricultural department has found grass and IN luke
an alfalfa which stand cold and drouh better tha any
rsviouslv known here The former has proved perieoy
~ clear m in North Dakota and assures the farmers
there both pasturage and hay. ,.
Not long ago an insect known as the san Jose soale
was found to be numerous and destructive in the California
orchards Several European countries took alarm and ADOPT
cd measures which threatened greatly to curta our foreign
r trade Reasoning from such past experience as that Of
the rabbit and the thistle in Australia it was seen that h
sou this scale was destructive that il had reached
country where its natural enemies did not exist to keep it
in check.
Then worldwide search for this insects home and nat
ral enemy began found in North China Ihere
the scale infested all OF fruit trees but did no extensive
damage because beetle kept its numbers within bounds 30
this beetle has brought across the Pacific and set 70
work upon its natural prey and California fruit growers are
feeling much more cheerful than they felt few years ago
Such are few of the achievements Of scientific intelI
pence applied to the farming industry They justify al
though on other grounds than his Cao saying that aefcu
re was the pursuit worthy OF the good citizen for
they prove that in farming operations there is scope Tor n
most painakng research and the most acute thought OIL
which the human mind is capable They show that those
who talk Of farming dull and uninteiectual occupation
are simply ignorant Of what modern agriculture means ana IS
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-04
Irrigation and Forests.

Chicago lnter. Ocean.
There is no one question before the people" de-
cares Secretary Hitchcock his annual report of greater
importance than conservation OF the water SUNNY and
and the reclamation Of the arid lands of the West and their
settlement by men who will actually build homes"
The need for systematic development Of irrigation is
shown by the fact that while third of this nations lana
area is still unoccupied there few places where
new homes can be made from the National domain The
vacant lands not rule barren But they lack water
Yet IS conservatvey estimated that countrys western
hall would sustain population equal to its present total
the waters now running were saved
The lands adjoining the smaller streams who's. y.t.s
could be 'heapy diverted for irrigation been largely
occupied In order to make available 600 900 ooo
acres stun vacant 1t is necessary build dams to mpound
the waters Of the mountain and to construct ,o
capable OF handling the flow OF great rivers These o
would be OF such and the returns though certain CO
slow that private capital undertake them
From these facts Secretary Hitchcock reaches the co
cusion that It is the Federal governments posve d, -
enter upon the systematic construction NJ m. ,eoo :,
version and storage works bring water 10 lands needle
nothing else TO make them fertile By reservng III. l,d
thus benefited for homestead entry in small tracts and l
them on proper terms the government would 6,.i,,
imoursed for its expenditure.
Hand in hand with the building of irrigation ,
however must so forest preservation. The National fot
reserves must be enlarged include all areas from h;h
issue streams OF Importance to irrigation Without ,bsss
forests to protect stream sources all irrigation MAJ, 80
tail Nor would the people suffer in the end q, -, -
"moer 1t has been demonstrated that propery pr.s.I
ana worked forest will supply perpetual erop o ,its
1t can no more be exhausted than can properly euya.a
me directions made in the East Federal aid and ,on
uol OF ard land reclamation mos, sborts;cb,.d
expansion OF our interior trade through the se,ts '
ara lands as Secretary Hitchcock truly declares o'S
oeneht every section by creating new HON. "0uu
would tend to relieve the congestion our great center. ~
population and would so FAR to aay soc;.i s; S oi
giving to who wanted If hon. -" p'stonent by
Inc facts and arguments advanced by s.crst.r t,,.
cock should convince congress Of IN. ,..s Hitch
psanns on the one hand certain laws which no. e 0y re-
laws 10 ,gbo,e J, c and By naens on the other
''''''4e AZ lea't the beginning Of irritation
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-04
EXCHANGE INTERVIEWS.

[ boIS,Pn b2S, + takqe rsyense on MS aenaHf3 soo
~
lou ought 10 try ~ It not only brings delinquent sub
scrbers to time, but secures ones.
X
he only excuse for quarrel is that the other fellow Is
clearly in the wrong Corpus Croay,
Sometimes the only excuse is because the other fellow
November dead. Deeembers here
So cali tbe hounds Ice Ian and Tere
Let's off to where The v6pd vines Irvine
10. l.f. , -t.tt.. =. .-..
SLOUGH hat game beg bright hunting horn
BE up and ready for the run
~ "'S' P'"N "''S' o' "s3"'e"'s mon"
High in the birch the squirrels play
In nearby fields the quail are calling
The mock6rd ris el4lsome lay
From out the trees The nuts are flllir
80 get your gun and fall IN line
tet Gun care moe It's haP'ess lace
And all Join in the merry chase
-Yolhpu Times
Yes, let's All natures creatures now
Would bure4 T., so.,-. ,e tA.. o,,l,i Ill, ,-,
r-l..., N' '' ''''' -'''
''' s''t'" Joy unto 'l 1a'nss
Lets load our guns and go and kill EN-.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-04
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.


The FIRST comment that occurs to the reader OF
President Boosevets message is that he has laid him
self open Job wished of his enemy when he
claimed ooh that mine adversary had written a
book The book the president has put forth like
the book that Hamlet read. It consists of Words
words Words The message is long very long that is
the first continent The second comment after a care.
fu reading is that there is very little in it, The YER
boeitv OF which there is perfect flood has drowned
ont the presidents meaning or the president having
no especial meaning or desiring to conceal what mean
ing he had has sIillfuly taken refuge in a lux of
words
The president deals with the subject of the trusts
THE mechanism of modern business is So delicate
are told that extreme care must he taken not to
Interfere with it in spirit of rashuess or ignorance
"Nforeover II oan moi too often no roirtod on, he as
in another place chat to strike with ignorant violence
at the interests of one set Of men almost inevitably
endaugers the interests of ALL These sentences have
o putocratc ring Yet the president does not come
square ont and favor tho trusts and huge combinations
that many patriotic men of an parties have come TO
regard as a serious menace to the country but favors
Northumberland Iogislaton--tha will regulate the
trusts he doesn't saw how and TINT above all will in
SIRE plblictt MS TO their affairs Publicity he thinks
is The great panacea II rs significant that there is NOT
one word in the message MS "a the host method of
dealing with the monopoly feature of the trusts and
rurtanng their mower to raise priccs and emf waco
speaking generally" he sAgs "a poriod of good times
means that all share moro or less In them Rut the
president does not take occasion IN sneak nartc,,ar
When we como N the cuostior If the toriN ,ho
president is little more de0nite There Is general
"Reminiscences no saws .r our nrosont tariff s,s+, D.,
He nuts himself pretty souarelv m record as beons
10 the let things alone" faction ~ +he ran,blicas
sweeping revisons OF the tariff no saws are ant 70
produce panic There Is no doubt as 10 how bo stands
here
But when we come 10 recinrocitv ,o arc IN rubih,
aea;, ,Recinrooitv r,,,st bo +roo,,s 90 a., 1,, ~,
of protection" There Is = third of q column about
reciprocitv but nothing more definite than that 10
anv particular reciprocity with anv narticnlor nation
ar e,,er as n sornr,, raot,,a,i+,. 90. 49,, -. =,
sDent AS 10 the Kasson recinrocit, troat,os ~ tni
saws that as 10 then, % ask tha attention 90 tb ~
ate"
Next the presi1ent tal,os nm the question =, ,, 49,
chant marine II is much n bo ro,rottnd 49, ~
souints very strongly toward shin snbsidv Mn Ne
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-04
GOVERNOR VAN SAINT AND THE RAILROAD
COMBINE

Governor Van SAINT Of Minnesota has determined to
break up the HlMorgan. Harriman-Gould consolida.
ton OF the Northern Pacific and Great Northern roads
made by the recent formation Of the Northern Secur
ties company. Governor Van SAINT declares that the
consolidation is Clearly in open violation of the plain
intent and purpose OF the law. that he will leave
stone unurned to prevent this contemplated consol
eation and that he will night it 10 the Anisho The
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-12-04

lverances we're awaited with interest the trusts and
the tariff the message is unsatisfactory. The pres
dent talks all around the trusts question and although
he is plain enough in his desire to let the tariff alone
when he comes to reciprocity the handmade OF the
tariff. he talks all around that subject, too.