Weekly journal-miner., 1915-02-17
PRESCOTT FARM
 IS PROVED USEFUL
(From Fridays Daily.)

From a desert in 1911, to a verit- able garden in 1915, would be an un- exaggerated definition of the progress of the Arizona Experiment Stations farm near Prescott, which, for the first time in farm experimentation in Arizona, is able to show what the farmer can do in profitable agricul- ture on lands at attitudes from 4,500 to $500 feet throughout the state. The plan was to see if soils at these attitudes would produce enough un- der scientific farm methods to induce settlers to make permanent homes thereon. It was necessary to try out as many as possible of each variety of the many kinds of plants adapted to such attitudes; also, to develop and fix upon such cultural methods as best would suit local conditions.
 After trying out thirty-five kinds of corn, 20 kinds of beans, 20 var ieties of sorghums, Is of potatoes and over Is of cereals, besides grass es, alfalfa, clover, peas and other crops, some very interesting conclus- ions have been reached by the man in charge of the work for the Ari- zona Experiment Station, at the Uni ve-sity of Arizona, Tucson.
 These conclusions indicate that the intelligent farmer can grow an average of seven tons of corn for cnsliage per acre, eight tons club top cane, two tons and a half of Sudan hay and good crops of rye for hay and pasturage in spring and during early summer. If allowed to head and mature, rye makes excellent hog food, if the hogs are allowed to har- vest 1t.
 Beans show a very strong prob ability of becoming a commercial crop at these attitudes. The white navy and pink Mexican beans are not dependable, such varieties as the Pinto. Boettcher and Tepary being the most reliable kinds Dwarf milo has undoubtedly proved the best grain sorghum to supply finishing grain for steers and hogs.
 The assumption that ensilage could not be produced as well in these all titudes as in and under arid climatic conditions as in the middle states has been entirely disapproved by experi- ments made on this station with a pit silo. concrete-lined of thirty feet in depth and eight feet inside dia- meter. It was conStrhcted at cost of less than $60 including labor. It has a capacity of thirty-fve tons and was built to utilize to the fullest 'ex- tent sorghums and corn crops which had been grown each year since the f,, tnn- mage to provide ample silage. This phase of the work is of paramount importance to farmers in sections of the state where arid conditions make matured profitable crops yearly some what problematical
 Thirty bushels of dwarf milo seed have been the average at the Pres colt station for the past four years.
 Irish potatoes at one and one-half cents a pound furnish profitable crop.
 The experiments thus far made at this station render 1t unnecessary for the incoming settler to waste his time in testing crops and cultural meth ods. He can learn these at first hand from the superintendent of the station and begin making living by following these methods and taking advantage of the information collect ed through these years. Moreover, he can make a fair living from the start. An exhaustive report of the work thus far done on the Prescott experiment farm is about to be is- sued in bulletin form by the cxperi- ment station, University of Arizona, Tucson.
 In this report, some unusually in- teresting reading will be found con corning dry farm orchard culture and the growing of suitable ornamental trees in these attitudes.