Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-07-15
Of FARMING
SULPHUR SPRINGS VALLEY

DOUGLAS, July Especially
Tie Agricultural committee of the
chamber Of commerce held a meeting
on Saturday afternoon and transacted
a lot of important business, the out
come of which, will mean a great deal
Of good to the agricultural POSSIBLE
tiles of the Sulphur Springs valley.
The committee are starting out with
the idea that the valley mDst be made
profitable country for agricultural
crops as well as for cattle. If the val
ley is developed as other valleys and
other arid and semi-arid countries have
developed, there win be twice the num-
Der of cattle raised every year as there
are today.
There is a good chance of getting
an agricultural experimental station
located in the valley either under the
supervision of the territorial college
or under the U. S. Department of Agri-
culture at Washington Other coun-
tries in the west have been favored
in this respect and Arizona certainly
should be as good as any Of the rest
of them and deserves consideration
both at the hands of the government
and at the hands of the territory. The
Agricultural college at Tucson already
maintains an experimental station at
Phoenix and one at Tempe for the
purpose of experimenting with oranges
and dates, cantaloupes, etc. It also
maintains a station at Yuma to demon
strate intensified farming. Arizona
supports no station at the present time
TO demonstrate tne success Of dry land
farming. Cocbise county is the rich
est county in the territory and pays
more to the support of the territorial
institutions than any other county in
the state and if there is to be an ex-
perimental station established in Ari-
IONA it should certainly be established
in Cochise county. If the legislature
will make an appropriation for this
purpose the station at Tucson will
gladly do the work and would be glad
of the opportunity of establishing the
first station in Cochise county and
the Sulphur Springs valley. 1t is the
belief of the committee that the mem
bers of the legislature from Cochise
county, at the next session of the leg
islature should introduce a bill to have
an experimental station in the Sui
phur Springs valley and in as much as
Maricopa and Yuma counties. already
have stations, there is no doubt but
that the bill would pass.
The committee discussed this mat
ter at some length and it was decided
70 make strong effort to have a sta
ton established in the Sulphur Springs
valley near Douglas. There is every
indication of a large immigration or
lhomeseekeTs into this VALLEY this fall
and there should be some place es-
! tablished where the newcomers can
get instructions how to farm in the val
| ley Many of the settlers will be peo-
| pie from the east who have never
| farmed under the science of soil cul-
ture and dry land farming but if the
proper instructions are given them
they will, without a doubt be able to
make a success.
Soil culture or the science OF dry
land farming is a thing that must be
taught 50 the farmers and, taking
the experience of those who have made
| a success as a criterion, a thorough
system of education is a necessary adj
junct to success. If the settlers who
come to the valley TO take up home
steads are given to understand that
farming in this valley can be made a
success in only one way and that way
is the right way, it is the opinion of the
committee that within a very short
time the Sulphur Springs valley will
be developed.
Another matter which was discussed
at some length by the committee was
the betterrment of the farmers of tn
valley who have already settled AM