Arizona republican., 1910-04-22
M0DtRE FARMING
 MORE PROFITABLE
4 Visitor From Illinois Speaks of ex,
 per,mentsl Results.

1 cial hotel At home he is q leading 1 farmer but, like many others, has reachcd the point by the application
 vf little American sense and pro- | grrSs. that he can take a trip and let
 the boys. cf which he has two ex- 1 c,llcnt farmers. besides his son in i Yavapai county. run the farms.
 | At the invitation of cX-Sherlff 1 RuffIcr. Mir. and Mrs. Rufrner came. q | few days since, to spend the suinuler with their son in Prescott IL didn't 1 take the stones there long to get pt, h,s nerves. for Mir. Ruffne:. senior is accustomed 10 broad. flat. wcll-iilicd 1 acres; sc hc came down 10 T'hoeniX 10 i see how tic farmers manage down i here. He has faith in Prescott: the expenses that his son there has ! and the success be has had in meeting
 them demonstrates to him that there | must be some kind of 2 backing to and ' bottom for the sister city: stlll he had ! heard that Phoenix was worth looking | at and Was of q style more familiar to
 him: so he came.
 As he sat on the porch of tho Com | mercial hotel yesterday. he chattcd most interestingly of the progress
 that the farmers of the Statcs of the Mississippi valley have been making.
 particularly in the last twenty years
 or more. while others here have been
 getting water on tbcir lands.
 We have a condensery at our coun-
 ty seat that takes inc milk of thou sand cows he said 10 a reporter Of The Republican yesterday. and. Of
 i,
 bcr with us as they have almost everywhere else. I got letter from
 one of my sons there yesterday. Hc has about twenty of the finest Jersey cows. but is milking only fifteen or them just at present. He said he was
 getting from them gallon of butter f2t or cream 2 day. For that he re- ccivcs q dollar--a dollar gallon is about what they. are paying there So that his cows bring him in about. E per day for cream alone: then the skim
 milk is worth S1 50 a day to feed hogs and calves-wc only save the finest hcifer calves, and tho manure is spread on the ground when the soil Is dry enough 10 go over while it has it's full strength. You know how careless farmers used to be Of the inaauro. and what job il used to seem to them to get rid q if. but all that is. changed. and nov we are as careful of 1t as can be and use every particle Of it to feed the land. For years VIC only cropped tfe land. but now VIC have taken to rcedinS it as well as cropping, and the result is entirely satisfactory to us.
 ''Thc State of Illinois established an agricultural experiment farm or sta
 ton in our county. As result far mers generally. thcrcabcuts. havc woR- derfully increased the production from thelr farms. am well acquainted with the professor in clisrse of the experiment station. -s
 The first thing he did was to czam- inc tbe soil. It was found lo bc cx- cosSivc in acids. Tn correct that he put line on il from q quarry in Ten ncssee. II comes. in small lpHnps. Then they divided % acres into, blocks os equal size. SD that the subsequent pro ducti"n from eacb could he compared 'op one block they put. as fertilizer. comin"li baruSard manure: "u ihe next one nothing in addition to the lip,e; on others Different kinds uf fer tiiizcrs: and on tlfc last nothing ut all, not even titc lime,
 ."On these lots 30 prepared. they planted g rotation of three crop
 oats. seeded io clover: clover; coru on inc first lot, with the lime treat mcut and uianure. the crop vas twice what it would have been otherwise. on an aye-frvu :5 bushels of oats it vas raised tc 5o. on thc lot that was treated only with lime. aud "n which no manure was yut, the yield was 4' bushcls. The other lots differed but Iitttc& from each other. but were moi app4rputly helped by the fertilizers: anu tho lot that was not treated with either manure. fertilizer. or lime. pro- J,Iced only ten buhsels. The clover stand was good on all tho lots except the untrcatod lot, where there was but an occasional stalk. but it was best on the inanured plot and next best on the pnc treated with lime only. On corn. the yield on the manured lot and tho one treated only witi lime went dp to TIE bushels per acre
 The experiments are to be continued for fifteen consecutive years. The purpose is to find out what may be hOiiN ltI tiHH'i. after the land has been properly treated to correct the acidity or other chemical excess and manured With ont going into details any further. may say that the result of the several years of experiments has been. so far. to show that when the land has once been corrected with the lime, if eX cessive acidity is what is the matter with if, and brought up with barnyard manure. clover turned under once in three years. at the close of the year after the crop. which usually goes three tons to the acre. is alone suffi- cient to not only keep the land up to par in fertility but to improve it a little under rotation with three crops. oats. clover. and corn t.s
 Mr. Ruffner expects to be here a week or so. The improvement in farm methods and their results. de- scribed by Mir. I,Lffner. show that the formers of America have been the architects oc their own good fortune. to large extent. in the last few years, and that their prosperity is not alto- getfe;' dependent upon tn" extra growth of misunderstanding population oyer the general rate Of increase of