Arizona republican., 1917-09-11

der to do this, the company will se- cure permission from the state cor poration commission to engage in | this particular traffic.
 The towns of Flagstaff and Will l Hams are also in the potato growing | business; there is hardly a yard | there, front or rear, that is not i potato patch
 There will be more potatoes in that country than there will be a market for. so that with the assistance of MT. Smalley. a market board has been established for the handling of the potatoes that they may be kept out of the hands of spectators. Many of the growers have potato cellars in which the potatoes can be kept until next spring. Most of the grow I CTS can handle their own crops, but for those who cannot, the market board will be a ready help MT. Smalley advised that the po- 1 tato crop has been removed be planted to winter wheat, for in that | country a hard wheat is raised equal to the best quality of northern wheat. Practically all of. the ground will be so planted. D. D. Smith, a wealthy cattleman has become inter ested and is enlisting the assistance l of others in the erection of a flour | ing mill for the conversion of the wheat into flour as the readiest means of bringing it into market in competition with the wheat of other localities.
 i In Navajo county, there has also been a large increase of acreage. There are about 1000 acres in beans which will yield 25 carloads. Apache county has also done well, adding about 25 per cent to an already large cultivated area. MohaVe county has made little increase Yavapai is rich in crops and especially in fruits than whose peaches, pears and apples there are none finer anywhere. But Yav- apai needs less attention of the state council of defense since it has at home markets for nearly all of it's products.
 MT. Smalley was accompanied over a part of his rtip by pr Bartlett of the state entomologist's office and D. A. Gilchrist of the department of . agriculture in charge of rodent con- tro in this state. One of the ques- tions asked in the survey was what ! pests the farmers were troubled with. | If the answer was prairie dogs, which have been destructive of aoout 25 per cent of the northern crops in the
 
 5 and the manner in which he de : stroyed them was q revelation. If it 3 turned out, according to the replies l of the farmers that the potato bugs :. We're principal allies of the Germans n with which they had to deal, Dr Bartlett entered upon their destruc tion with the most gratifying results to the farmers.
 e The only way to find out to what n extent the people had responded to
 the appeal for bigger crops was tC e travel over the country There was = no center where that informa tior n could be secured. MT Smalley would y learn of a little agricultural settle r ment about fifteen or twenty mile. e away and would drive out to it, eX- = pecting to return to the railroad th1 next day Once there. he would lear
 of another settlement farther on ant
 so on.
 He found everywhere the greates
 desire of the people to cooperate il
 the work of the council. He yisite,
 many farmers meetings, and on hi
 return, while stopping at Prescott h
 was invited to attend a meetin
 where lot of boys would seek in
 struction. Having addressed boy
 before, he was a little diffident ahOu
 It. But lie was pleaSlngly surprise
 to find them very sober and atten
 tive, frame of mnid that migi
 have been induced by the fact tha
 the first contingent of the nationf
 army had left Prescott the day be
 fore and the spirit of patriotism wa
 still boiling.
 Soon after his arrival in the cit.
 MT. Smalley received a telegram frol
 T. NJ Riordan of Flagstaff, who ha been appointed by MT. Hoover, stat
 food administrator for Arizona. rt
 questing him to come to Flagsta
 for a conference Accordingly he le
 for the north last night
 MT J F. Sellers, statistician f.
 the state council also returned yes
 terday from a tour of the sou
 where he found very pleasing si
 uation among the farmers prcspec
 of good crops on enlarged areas.