Arizona republican., 1913-12-08
FARMS REPLACE
 CACTUS FLATS
Elgin. in Santa Cruz Coun- tv. Shows Wonderful Progress. Splendid Dry Farming Belt. Good Re ception Given.
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the demonstration train. Elgin within the past two years has grown to con- siderable size, not the town alone but also the surrounding country. Farmers from a distance of to 10 miles drove to the train to learn more about the science of farming. Elgin is the most prosperous looking dry-farming section that the train has thus far visited and great things are expected from the farmers of this section.
 Progress can be seen on all sides, to- day as one looks from an automobile or pullman window, houses, wells, rigs, pumps, garden patches and indus triOus people making homes on gras- sy plain instead of the cactus and soap weed of a few years ago can be seen. These enterprising people have dotted the landscape with homesteads which in the course of a few years, will be- come fine ranches and orchards with sleek cattle grazing in alfalfa fields the country marked with network of roads and telephone wires.
 George Beebe the pioneer farmer of this most promising country, deserves much credit in bringing solid citizens to this section. MT. Beebe has con siderable land here and is first-class
 
 Beebe took Profs. Moore and Finger and the Republican representative in an automobile ride throughout the sur rounding country pr. Moore was very busy taking some interesting pictures and inspecting Mir Beebe's we'll con- structed apple orchard Next spring MT Beebe will plant 40OO additional apple trees and will no doubt in a few years be heard of from all parts of the state. Prof. Finger imported three of MT. Beebes gasoline engines,
 The Tepary Bean.
 Dr. R. H. Forbes, director of the eX- pertinent station. lectured to an over crowded car on The Tepary Bean. a new southwestern legume and in part said: "The experience of practical farmers throughout Arizona has for years demonstrated the fact that no crop so well fills this demand as the growing of dry shell beans. Being a country wide food staple, they have a steady market which is little influenced by local conditions other than trans pOrtatiOn charges. Among the tepary beans that grow in this section are white, black and yellow. DOmesticated from the neighboring canyons and cul- tivated in small patches attended at best by a crude husbandry and depend ing upon the precarious summer rains and uncertain floods from the noun tain washes for irrigation, the tepary has lost none of it's native hardness. It has been cultivated by the Papago and Pima Indians from prehistoric times and in all probability formed one of the principle food crops of that an cient and now unknown agricultural race, the ruins of whose cities and ir- rigation canals are now the only wit nesses of their former presence and prosperity.
 The tepary IS food, among the In dians and Mexicans, the pink bean is preferred to the tepary as they say it has better flavor. These people, how ever, make the same difference between the pink bean and the white navy which is shipped in from the east Te- paries should be soaked twelve hours before cooking during which time they swell to at least twice their original volume and more than double in weight
 The superiority of the tepary over other beans for planting in the south west is exhibited in it's greater produc- tiVlty when grown under favorable con ditions."
 Prof. A. M. McOmie went on the reg ular passenger train this morning for Benson to make arrangements for to- morrow when the demonstration train arrives at that place.
 Types of Cows
 w. B. McCannell gave a very strik- ing address on Types of Cows" and in part said:
 As truly as there is a typical beef animal brood, law and blocky just as truly is there a typical doing animal put Of different type Sometimes We flnd profitable combination of beef ana butter in the same animal but it IS the exception rather than the rule While the scales and Babcock test should be depended upon for evidence to decide in the final judgment of q dairy cow, the eye should be trained as well, to see those points of confor- nation that indicate a high production capacity MT. McCOnneIl's talk creat- ed much interest and he will again spend this evening at the school house.
 V. B. Hanson of the comfortable ho- tel here contributed some fine turnips and radlshes from his dry farm which received no water except that which Tell from above. MT. Hanson furnished delightful entertainment in the ev- ening which was attended by all of the professors.
 Prof. A. L. Finger of the experiment. station, lectured on "The Place of Wlndmills on the Farm" Even in a single locality he said "The wind pow CT is variable and care must be taken in deciding upon the site for a wind mill It should ne placed at distance from obstruction such as trees and buildings and preferably on the pre-