Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-17
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 ARIZONA SOIL
Prosperous Rancher Tells How Wealth Can Be Accumulated From the Filling of it's Fertile Fields.

at Lowell. has kindly given his ex- ! Ferieuce in he matter of raising gar dea produce. He did not achieve suu- cess by hanging about the street corners in Tucson ana trusting to the ! Lord and the hired man to make ends meet and tie at the end of the season. but he worked himself. worked hard and won out away ahead of the others. :, Referring to tomatoes. he said:
 "I have eNperimerted with several varieties. and one of the most pront. able tomatoes have ever raised was the Trophy. The Acme Is very simi- lar. and from enc acre of ground four years ago We realized $l32o. when | tomatoes sold at less price than they Go today. Since that time have raised only few tomatoes. as l am always experimenting on something new. Some ranchers have been trou- blod glih a blight some years, but
 have never been bothered with it to any extent. As q rule. when be gin on some new crop, I keep spe- cial account Of t and see ho9 much am realizing. but after the first year [ do not do this. hence have Do record how much gomatoes have . but it must have been as much or more than the first year. for I have besn getting higher price continual ly. Last year l sold very little for less than CT e. whereas iho first year the average would not exceed
 @. We have never been able to raise enough tomatoes 10 supply the demand, and the outside towns of
 
 pcting With California prices we have an almost unlimited market.
 The hot-beds for this crop should
 Oe made in February. and by the time frosts are over there will be good strong plants to transplant. The only
 pest VIC have ever had gas tle blight
 and tho tobacco woris eats the vines
 some. but they are very easily dis posed Of. The blight the university
 has never been able 10 combat when once it got started. The only effec-
 tive way was to pull up the vines de strOying them. Tho above named varieties arc old varieties and are very heavy bearers Perhaps the reason have had the best luck with these
 varieties Is that they may De less lia ble to blight than others.
 "Cabbages as q rule are a very [ good crop. Last year was an excep-
 tioial one. however, the competition
 being so great on both cabbages and lonions that the price was low. One treason fer this was the university l got out q bulletin on onions and cab
 bGges and the chamber of commerce.
 gave some of my eIperfeuyes, and
 many rauchers went into these two varieties, consequently the market was overloaded with onions and cab bGgc.
 | Year before last, on onions, we got 2la and f cents. Last year ] sold 1000 at 75c q hundred pounds. But it didn't Feem 10 make much difference . i've had other crops that brought good money. The onion crop has ney. er had any enemies here. l have |, heard Of enemies in Texas and also aJ Yuma, but I have raised onions n great many years and have ever had any trouble in that line.
 some of my nsighbors are troubled with what they call root-rot on cab
 bages, but the best preventative of
 disease 10 most plants is to keep , a thrifty growth and proper cultiva' ton. One of the best cabbages for this climate is the Charleston; that is for an early cabbage Almost any ot them, however. do well. A few years ago I planted one Of thg large varieties of cabbage, which. when mamred were go large that ibe only market -or them vas at hotels. restaurants $ and mining camTs. A great many of them weighted oyer 70 pounds each. Then they were cut off. The second cutting produced three more heads to the stalk. which were good size for
 family trade. weighing from to ,
 pounds apiece. These cabhages brought me SiSO an acre. with an average Of 1c a pound Since that
 time ! have not tried to raise a larse size cabbage. for they are hard to sell When a cabbage weighs 20
 pounds, TO family has any use for them. Tho Charleston are a sure
 header and makes a cabbage that IS large enough for any use and can be |. planted closo together, planting them
 usually 1S inches by 2 feet. In that
 way We can plant between 9 and 10
 thousand head to the acre. On req sonably good land the Charleston
 averages 3ia pounds. producing 3O.000 pounds of cabbage tO the acre. which as a rule are worth from ll2 to cents per pound. last year being an icxoepti0n.
 For the last five years my cab baEc crop has averaged Sf00 per acre II gross. As soon as oar cabbage crop is harvested. We raise a crop of corn on the same ground. planting the corn the first of August.
 The earliest onion that have ever tried is tle BaTletta. ard for a late onion. the Brown Australian. The
 BsrleJts is not a, heavy yielder. but usually rlpens in time to catch the
 Jop price. sold my Barlettas last year fron to 2 cents per pound.
 The Brown Australia Is one Of the best keepers that ] have ever raised. g have onions in my house now fn perfect condition pulled in June. The
 onion crop is usually good for s400 per acre. Year before last the crop
 brought me s550 per acre. Owing to onions being 50 high The year before. every one went into it and hundreds
 Of acres were planted, not only in Ari- zcna. but also in California. We
 thought We were in a bad way for | having to sen onions last year for 75c, but that is usually the price in Call fornia every year. Onions are usual ly planted in beds the last of August and transplanted from October 10 .rn .fI f4e..ac