Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-13
TRUCK FARMERS TALK MORE
 SYSTEM
Yuma Valley Men Think They Could Raise and Sell Twen- ty Times Present Volume of Various Products
(Phoenix pemocrat.

NFnOcu& OeLlOCIdt.
 Yuma valley has fer several sea sons felt the need of an organization to handle the canteloupes, tomatoes, cucumbers. wstermelons. onions. greet ct potatoes potatoes and and other produce produce grown there. and to encourage the growth and facilitate the distribution of twenty times more of the same sort of stuff that ought to be grown there.
 Several attempts have been made to organize such an association, but from different causes each attempt has met with failure-failure which during the last season cost the pro duce raisers of the valley not a little money.
 With the imperative need of an or sarization impressed so recently and so forcibly upon them. number of the principal and most active pro ducers are again making a attempt to get together, and within few days a fcall will be made for meeting at which 1t is hoped the initial steps will le taken to found an association with phich to handle next seasons crops. oeaks effort should prove successful moreN produce will be raised in the .
 ". H. DeBerry who has interested himself in the matter. is in communi- cation with a prominent handler of cantaloupes and other produce in Los Angeles. who now handles a large portion of the cantaloupe output e the Prawiey section, and he is willing and anxious to handle the Yuma out put on a similar basis. His method is novel one. sn that he pays cash for the cantaloupes at a stipulated price, f. o. D. the cars. thus doing away with the commission man. It is claimed that this method of handling produce gives better results to the grower than any other The cores pondenee wiH be considered at the proposed meeting.
 Prof. R. H. Forbes, director of the University Experiment Station. is taking an intense interest in the or sanitation, and his assistance wsll mean great deal, as the experiments conducted by Ed Crane on the ex- pertinent station farm west of town under the direction of Prof. Forbes. have been of invaluable benefit in showing what can be done with Colo rado valley soil.
 
 written MT. Crane as follows:
 I am much interested in knu--. ing when that cantaloupe growers meeting concerning which Mir. DeBer- " spoke few days ago is coming of, and where
 T learn that the cantaloupe grow CTS at Mesa are very thorough and careful in their methods of securing good seed as well as in the business of marketing their melons They sent man from Mesa to Rocky Ford this summer to superintend the cut ting of the seed melons in order to make sure of getting the best possible seed for their purposes.
 You will be interested to know that at Mesa this year 161 cars were shipped. besides 3,060 crates sold lo- caIly.
 The net returns from car ship ments was s1.03 per crate, the price ranging from s1.74 down to 80 cents The yield was 100 crates per acre, but 20 per cent of the crop was lost through ice and rains. Now. canta- louDes are considered very profit able crop at Mesa, but I think there 5s no doubt in the world that the fer tile soil of the Colorado valley can ship much more than 100 crates per acre. Our own acre as you know. yielded us 345 crates besides lncaI sales.
 If the Experiment Station can help in the matter of organizing an asso. citation st Yuma in any way by means of information or attendance at the meeting held for the purposa we VIII be glad to do so."