Weekly journal-miner., 1911-11-01
(From FT4day's Daily)

national prominence, was withou doubt the most interesting and at tn, same time one of the most instruc tive talks ever delivered before { Prescott audience.
 Discussing the lands adjacent tC Prescott, over which he was driven 1T MT. Murphy's machine all day yes terday in a pouring rain, Dr. Taylor stated that he would recommend farmers seeking soils at once fertile and reasonable in price to come to Yavapai county and purchase or enter upon them.
 The climatic factor was not over looked by Dr. Taylor who said that when the rich of the world discover ed the curative properties of the tonic mountain atmosphere. of Yava- pal county, Prescott must awake to the necessity of providing for their comfort. This he said would require the erection of a splendid hotel on one of the ideal sites surrounding the city. Without this factor, Prescott can hardly hope to take the place it deserves among the great sanatoria of the world.
 Continuing, Dr. Taylor entered min utely into the structure of typical Yavapai soils. He had seen soils that were admirably adapted to the raising of corn or milo maize and COW peas, which together give steers and hogs the proper feed proportions for fattening. Moreover, the COW pea will contribute to the soil just that factor toward its strengthening which it most needs.
 The absolute necessity of raising cattle and hogs in conjunction with dry farming was strongly emphasized. The speaker pointed out that the hog and steer returns to the soil from his Offal just eighty per cent of the nutriment taken from the soil by the crops fed to it. This gave the farmer back his own without causing him to resort to artificial fertilizers. Nature said the Doctor, fortifies the farmer in Yavapai county with the essentials for nourishing his soils without re- sort to products which must be brought from a distance. He went on to tell just how to prepare res ervoir for the conservation of mOis- ture in the soil, by deep blowing and consistent, persistent mulching. He showed, in a way never brought out before a local audience, by figures and chemical formulae, just how the nutritive value of the soils are de preeiated through unintelligent care less methods.
 Mining, he said, cannot last forever and the same applies to farming, where the farmer persists in with drawing from his soil She very essen tials for successful and successive raising of crops.
 With a rainfall of 17.6 inches, the average in this county for the past twenty years, he said that Yavapai farmers using scientific methods, can raise crops every year.
 "Take the gray matter out of your head and put it into your soil"
 Dr. Taylor was urged to remain in Prescott and address a mass meeting of the pupils of the public schools tomorrow and a meeting of the farm CTS at the Chamber of Commerce to- morrow night as planned by Secre- tary Fraser who secured his presence here, while at Colorado Springs last week. Unfortunately these meetings will have to be omitted at this time, but Dr. Taylor promises to spend several days in Yavapai county next February, coming over from eastern Texas especially for this purpose.
 In closing his remarks, he made a powerful plea for the enactment by the first state legislature of Arizona, of a law enforcing the teaching of the primary principles of agriculture in every school in the new state.
 President Fredericks, while in San Francisco last week, urged upon the attention of Mayor James Rolph and Messrs. Green, Fleischaeker, Lipman, Lynch and other prominent bankers of that city, the importance of follow ing the lead of Los Angeles and San Diego in sending booster delegations by special train through the principal commercial cities of Arizona, to in terchange friendly and business rela- tions with its citizens.
 Yesterday Mir. Fredericks reported that he had received a letter from