Arizona republican., 1908-10-31

berries have made him famous, could not raise berries except he planted
 Jonhson grass among them, and l Johnson grass is a crime in any
 country, so he had plowed up his
 patch and was going to quit the | business. Mir. Maxwell went to see | MT. Chambers and told him what he | had heard. Bless your heart" said | Mir Chambers, T did get some John | son grass in my patch, but not be- cause I wanted it. and the man that l invented it or brought it into the country ought to have been hanged or words to that effect. He then eX- 1 plained that he had plowed up his berry patch, but the business was so profitable he felt that he could af- ford to do so and lose one crop sea son in order to kill out the Johnson grass. He has now accomplished that fact, and will replant to straw
 berries at once. And he killed the Johnson grass, notwithstanding some people say they cant do it. He plowed very thinly first and exposed the frass roots to the sun until they were dead. Then he repeated the optration time after time until the grass was killed. Mir. Chambers is still in the strawberry business.
 Speaking of strawberries. MT. Max well also visited the little farm of man named Houston. who is the sole owner and landlord of nine acres. But that is so big a ranch he hasn't had time to get it all into cultivation yet, and this year he only put his real efforts on six acres. from which he cleared between $500 and S900 Among his extensive hold
 ings is quarter of an acre of strawberries. From these plants he had all the berries he wanted for table use for ten out of the twelve months in the past year. and in ad
 dition he sold Sl55 worth of berries. or at the rate of over $500 per acre.
 Every one of the men named would doubtless have failed in their efforts had they followed the methods em- ployed in the old home back east or up north. They succeeded because they knew how, and they had first to learn how. Fortunately they were here at 9 time when they could get the experience without disaster. But if a hundred men came in here with limited means and tried to do the trick and everything they did was wrong they would certainly fail and become disgusted and leave the country. These men know their crops and have provided for the necessities of them. They have secured an ample water supply. Mir. Black, for instance, has a water supply through two ca
 nals that furnishes him just what he needs, and that newcomers could
 not get except by pumped water or
 by waiting a year or so until the ! reservoir is finished.
 Truck gardening requires more wa ter than almost anything else. There are many crops for which the water 1 supply of the past two years is ann ! pie. and it will be ample for all any where as soon as the reservoir supply | is available, which will be very soon | now. In the Homecroft Acres this ! has been provided for by the bie l pumping plant that augments the 1 ditch supply, or, for that matter. is ample without the ditch supply 1 Other tracts are somewhat similarly
 situated, but the greater part of tho l land will require the reservoir to
 make the supply ample for the smal 1 truck farmer. It is believed the reser-
 voir supply will be ample the coming crop season, even though the water
 is not yet allotted, but it surely vii
 be the following year. The necessity of the hour though is to get some, thing started that will give the new I conner the needed information abou
 how to proceed, for the time to pro ] rnnd is nIrna nt Ennh