Arizona republican., 1906-03-16
Dairy Farming in Arizona

This part of Arizona is, and will con- tinue to be. under the action of wise laws. the land of the small home maker. It is my firm conviction that there Is no part of the country where the capitalist may invest with more certainty of fiattering returns, but par ticularly this land should appeal to the man who must year by year earn the means to feed, clothe and educate his family. One particular reason why the man of small means should come to the Salt River valley is that with those means properly invested. as may be done at the present time. backed up with reasonable amount of energy and willingness to work, q good living for the little family is assured from the very beginning. No waiting for a year for a grain crop to mature, or for two or three years for peaches, april cots or small fruit, or five or six years for oranges But with few good cows immediate returns are at hand and the living for the family assured within ten days from the time he reaches this land of promise and fulfllment.
 There is no better dairy country in the world than this valley. Cattle are remarkably healthy and free from all diseases. There are no hard winters and severe storms to check the cows in milk. There is the best of dairy feed. and with little labor and fore thought, green feed the year round. No one feed equals our alfalfa for dairy cows. It comes nearer being a bal anced ration than any other; Three times as many cove r~ay be kept on an equal acreage as in the dairy sections of the eastern states. We can say Es .7. a Fr... of experience in Illinois, and twenty years of experience in Arizona. Those years of experience have seen a family of children grown to maturity and each one given a high school and college education and the means for doing 1t dug out of the dairy business here in Arizona.
 With an abundance of feed is an as sured and immediate market for all the dairy produce we may have. The growing cities of Arizona with the hundreds of mining camps of the ter ritory all draw much of their dairy supplies from this valley and would take twice as much if we had it. Old Mexico on the south of us is a splen- did market and nearer to us than to any other source of supply. What we need is more cows and the men who are willing to care for and milk them. There is no possibility of failure if you are willing to work. Cash returns and at a fair valuation is assured each month and as long as you are willing to work Remember we are not invit- ing you to a land where you will put in six months raising the feed and then work harder the next six feeding 1t out. But the feed grown each month in the year and the old COW working overtime each day for three hundred and sixty-fiye days in each year in | order to harvest it.
 In the dry years. that We hope are
 now forever gone. our dairy people have done better than any other. and with the abundance of water that we i believe will be assured to us in the years to come there can be no surer thing on this earth for the family that must earn its living than a few acres and few good cows right here in Ari-
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 | To recapitulate, we have the best
 climate on earth, cattle are healthy,
 feed the best and in abundance green
 feed the year round. and a ready and
 assured market at good prices.
 l EMERY KAYS