The Arizona sentinel., 1908-12-30
CUT SEVEN CROPS YEARLY.

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 CUT SEVEN. CROPS YEARLY.
 Arizona has established an experiment station in the heart of this big valley, which is some twenty-four miles long, and in spots ten 10 twelve miles wide, down on the lower level. The results are wonderful. Last week they were cutting crop of alfalfa on this ex- perimental farm, and for seven consecutive months they will cut succeeding crops. The only months when the crop IS not cut here are December and January.
 Cotton and tobacco grow with the greatest luxuriance, and this rich alluvial soil will be i noted in n very few years as the ideal spot in the whole country for dairying, hog raising, the production of poultry and vegetables, which one hesitates to call early or late, as they will be perennial. New potatoes will be produced in the middle of January, tomatoes will be ripe by the first of March. ripe grapes will Soe gathered in the early days of May, and april cots by the middle Of the same month. Chic kens and turkeys flourish there in the winter time beyond all experience anywhere else. The rainfall is exceedingly light and comes only three or four times in whole winter. With an abundance of green alfalfa and veget- able the dry and not overloaded climate prevailing in the winter months, chickens are free from the disease that make their raising difficult elsewhere. There is no spot in South ern Illinois or Missouri so adapted to the pro- duction of corn as this valley along the Cobra do River. With alfalfa and corn. the butter, cheese, eggs, poultry and pork to be raised on 8 tWcnty-acre farm will amaze those who have the experience in American agricultural affairs
 The winter climate around Yuma Is thing so intoxicatingly salubrious That no words cali describe it. Those deserts Of America, as We have regarded them heretofore, seem to defy 1 the ills that human nature elsewhere is so prone to contract and suffer from. The atmos phere is as dry as punk the skies cloudlessy clear, the air mild as possible, and every
 breath seems 10 be an inspiration of new life The United States has an experiment farm On the mesa just on the outskirts of Yuma. Here
 ults even more marvellous than in the valley
 are produced. Down on the lower levels there
 are little nipS of frosty mOrnlugs occasionally
 during December and January, but on the mesa
 the breath of frost never touches the most del
 icate vegetation. Oranges grown at the Feeder
 al experiment station are unsurpassed ill their | delicious q lality.
 | Yuma is busy, up-to-date town. The more
 modern Improvements consist of several blocks of attractive brick buildings. three-story post
 office building, also of brick, and many other
 nice structures Among some of the greater 1 improvements which are being made, are Q S35, ,0C0 school building, a S75.CO0 ice plant, Q i fine clubhouse for the railroad employees, a ! larger passenger depot, and the probability Of
 g new court house to cost S75, GOO. There is con | siderable business done there. but the people have not beplln tO awaken tO the vast DOSSibili i ties Of the place. They should at once erect an up-to-date tourist hotel. It should have ample grounds around it and be planted with all
 kinds of tropical vegetation. If atmosphere were only transportable like mineral waters, and one could send eonsignments of this Yuma winter air to the East, the inspiration Of it's
 health-giving qualities would bring g co
 tourists every winter to the banks of the Colo rado River.
 Yuma needs only to make known it's climatic
 attractions in the parts of the East swept every year by blizzardS and snowsJor.Es 10 attract a
 city full every winter The fertility q ,ae va- lev below will almost make ilselt known with out effort on the part Of the people. But with d
 valley full of intelligent and industriou5 rural population. producing fruits and vegetables, ! poultry. eggs, fresh milk and fraGrart butter,
 Yuma should be one Of 'tho most delightful
 winter resorts in all America. There k every.
 thing there to furnish tourists with the most