The Arizona sentinel., 1910-12-08

1 pounds: waste most of which could have been canned, lolO pounds. Total crop of $500 vines, l534l pounds or 4.6 pounds, gross, to the vine. Highest price received, BOG for single | pound on June 10. Bulk of first-class crop sold curing July in Tucson and Bisbee markets, at 6H to 4Hc f. O. b. Yuma.Second class crop | sold locally down to %.
 Cash Cash outlay, returns. l Seed ......-...................S l,72 | IS irrigations, N acre ....... 4.50
 43S crates for shipments to Tucson and Bisbee. 66.50 | 1851 pounds of tomatoes at 5Uc CO 2c..... $6A.6VT | Net cash returns, not de- ductfng labor. .............. 55l8S s6246O s624.6O | .*NOt including S14.6O, failed to collect. Until the last Of June this crop required but | little labor. During the shipping season, however, four persons were employed on about half time in picking, packing and ship fog the crop. The entire labor requirements l inr the crop were, mems time 85 days; women and boys, 3S days; and team 10 days, the heaviest demand upon labor being during lnlv Dwar ChamDiOn and Rurpee'S Quarter Century yielded about equally we'll, both be- ing or the dwarf buShy sorts best adapted to this climate. Barnyard manure was used 1n- der the double rows. otherwise the ground was unfertilized Oave by the muddy irrigating water used.
 ROckyford cantaloupes; acre: Seed planted March 7-9 lHU6. Cold, backward saasOn re- sulting m thin stand equal to about three- ! fourths of an acre. Crop picked July ts Sept. :. Yield 7S0 dozen, sold locally at from 35c to l5c dozen.
 Cash Cash outlay. returns. pound S6eG eG.-.-.............. l.OO
 Is irrigations ................ 500 7S0 dozen cantaloupes at 35c to l5c .... $l44.tU Net cash returns, not de- ductlng labor. .............. 135.60
 SI44.eO sl44.6O The labor on this crop was light, but in this case time consu ming, because ofinconvenient | arrangements for marketing. There were em ployed on the crop 3l days mems time; days women and boys and days team, not other wise included.
 The crop was fertilized with barnyald man. ure in about three-fourths of the hills, and, as stated above, the stand was poor. The results of this acre are therefore conservative. WatermelonS and sundry small items of produce were sold locally to the amount of. ....................... SI5.65 Seed and irrigating water, about 200 Leaving cash return of about. lS6o
 sl5.65 sl565 Alfalfa; 17O acres: This was SOW .. May IS 1865, yielding three cuttings of about five tons of clca- hay the first season. During the sec- ond season, covered by this Timely Hint, there were seven cuttings with a total of about 20 tons Of hay. The only cash outlay was S22.4l for rrigating water. The labor re- Quired was, mans time, IA days and team nine days, which is rather high labor require ment for this alfalfa on account of the small size of the field under consideration, and linn ited use of machinery. This crop at @ % to Sl0OO a ton, loose, which has been the price this season. represents a cash return of not less than Sl2l.O0 for the crop; but this hay was Used to feed hn team employed on the place, proving to he more than sufficient for that purpose, since stack of about three tons re- mains at the end Of the season. The manure from this source, being free from Bermuda grass seed, was especially valuable for fertii- izing a part Of the crops grown