Weekly journal-miner., 1917-09-19
MUCHGOODDONE BY DRY FARM
 OPERATIONS
EXPERIMENTAL TRACT IS DISCLOSING 20 SSIBILI- TIES WHICH LAY IN THE UNDEVELOPED LAND OF NORTHERN COUNTIES.
(From Saturdays Daily.)

Seeing IS believing. ConslderaDle money has been given by citizens oi Prescott towards equipping the Pres- colt Experiment Farm, perhaps bet ter known as the dry farm" and what I want the business men and farmers of Prescott and vicinity to do is to come down to their farm, see how the money has been expended and whether that expenditure is jus tihed" With these words for start CT, L. L. Bates, the superintendent of the Prescott Experiment Farm urged the chamber of commerce to use its efforts in having the citizens visit this farm and see what IS being done on raw land in Yavapai county To this end a motorcade will be run to the | Prescott Experiment Farm on Tues day, September 18th, at p. m. Those having automobiles and who will make the trip are asked to leave their names at the chamber of commerce office. All those desiring to visit the farm, whether they have machines or not, are also requested to leave their names with the secretary, as several cars have been promised which will be glad to take visitors to the farm. 1 A special representative of the State university will be on the ground to- gether with Mir Bates to show just what has been accomplished. Further more iced dry" watermelons will be served. The return trip will be made at , o'clock. Permission has been given by Messrs. Bianconi and Duke to run over their private road which is one of the most picturesque noun tair roads in Yavapai county.
 Prof. K. H. Forbes, director of the extension service of the State, and who recently made visit to the farm said: "One of the sights rear Pres colt, really worth seeing at this time, when everyone is interested in in creased food production, is the Pres colt dry farm. Several months tgo, when the national campaign for in creased food production was begun, the work of the dry farm was organ ized for the greatest possibleefficiency in the production of crops which had been proved successful here: and Mir. L. L. Bates again took charge of the work with his usual energy and skill in handling the farm.
 The season has been fairly favor able and at this time the place is GOV cred with heavy yields of Sudan grass milo maize, feterita, sorghums, darso, Indian corn, potatoes, beans and vege tables. The main effort has been to grow crops of corn and the various grain sorghums which make good sil age: and the intention is to feed the silagc made from them to cattle next Winter
 Probably the most successful crop sown this year is the Papago sweet corn, which on low ground receiving some flood water, made a dense growth of nine or ten feet high which will make easily l2 to Is tons of sil- age per acre. On uplands receiving no floods this variety of corn is mak- ing three to four tons of silagc per acre. Bloody Butcher and White Moqui corn arc also making a fine showing. Fcterita, milo maize, black amber and club head sorghums are producing on upland locations satis- factory tonnages of silage and very rich in grain.
 "Mr. Bates is just beginning to har- vest these crops and his silage cutter is busy working them up into the three siloS which have been built to receive them. These three silos have a capacity of l60 tons-enough to feed wcll-75 or 50 cattle for period of three months; and sufficient to tide much greater number over three months period of shortage The pos abilities of silage are shown by an experiment that was conducted by Mir Bates at the farm early this year. He took Is head of poor range cattle and fed them Is tons of silage during six weeks, giving them all they would cat At the beginning they could have been purchased for $275O each or $4l250. At the end of feeding they were sold in good condition for $45 each or $675 "a gain in value of $2o250. More over, some of these cattle would have died ii they had been left on the range. Estimating this loss to repre- sent the range at two cattle for the bunch, the death losses saved in the experiment were two at S27 SO or S55, which added to S262. 90 in value gain