Arizona republican., 1910-10-23
AN ALFALFA STORY
 FROM THE BUCKEYE
Not Theoretical, But Actual Achieve nents of We'll Known Farmers
 in the Summer of 1910.

It isn't everybody, even in this much favored land who can strike
 such an agricultural pay streak as
 some of the Buckeye farmers follow
 ed up this year, but anybody who
 isn't too lazy to work and has enough
 cash or credit to buy the land with
 can do more than half as we'll and
 that is better than he can do in
 most places. The experiences of
 Wsdgeworth and sons, Buckeye
 ranchers, and of Ed H. Conger, also
 a Buckeye prospective agricultural
 plutocrat are not referred to as eX-
 amples of what everybody can do
 but as examples of what good farm
 CTS can do in the Buckeye district,
 where the soil and water are ideal,
 and which efforts can be duplicated
 by the good farmers all over the
 Salt River valley, where the same conditions now prevail. Others have a right to hope for equal success and an assurance that with industry and common ordinary farmer sense they can do better than in any other farming country in the world.
 Wedgeworth and sons this year have raised two crops of alfalfa seed per acre, cut one crop of hay before allowing the alfalfa to go to seed, have the threshed hay left and their acres will produce another crop of hay before frost unless they choose to pasture it off, which will perhaps return equally as much net profit.
 The first crop of seed yielded 500 pounds per acre from the thresher the second crop yielded 300 pounds The first crop was sold at 13%c per pound and the second crop has not been sold but they have refused 14R cents for it. The seed for the year therefore has averaged them IA cents (unless perchance the price goes still higher before they selD. which equals s122 per acre. The first and last crops of hay are valued at $lO per acre, at a conservative estimate and the threshed hay for the two crops should be worth at least S5 per acre. conservatively estimated That totals s1s7 per acre for the Wedgeworth acres for this seasons product, though in speaking of it they only claim. to be perfectly modest in the matter. a return of s125 per acre.
 Now about Mir. Conger. He had forty-acre patch of Buckeye dirt last spring that a prospective investor wanted to buy. MT. Conger said he was not eager to sell but if he want 1 ed it real bad he would dispose of, it | at the bargain price of $100 per acre That looked too much like real mon- ey and the offer was rejected. MT | Conger is glad of it now for he has | taken s4O24, or SPA more than he of fered the nand for, off the property | this year, in alfalfa seed, beside the i hay. both the threshed and the early and late crops Moreover a railroad nas been built into the country since then which has added value to his holdings and anybody who wants to talk to MT. Conger wants to start at better than s1O0 per acre. An other crop like that one of this year, which more than paid for the price ,f the land, would pay the cost Of arming for the two years, interest ,n the money invested at $lOO per ,cre. and more profit beside than most people can make on farm anywhere else.
 MT. Conger's two crops of alfalfa ,nly netted him 700 pounds of seed co pounds less than the Wedge vorths. but assuming that he only rot S worth of threshed hay and $lO vorth of regular hay or. pasture per ere, he is still way in the clear Tor he seed alone brought him as much IS he valued the land at year ago.
 These are not imaginary or theo- etical tales but are the actual ex- ,erierces of men. who know how to arm in the best country that was yer made for a farmer, and men vho only do half as we'll are not