Arizona republican., 1919-07-11
WILL COTTON DUST
 TIE DAIRY COW |S
 PROBLEM DEBATED

MESA, July Ills the cotton indus try to put the dairy COW entirely out | of business? This is a question ire quently discussed by south sde ranch CTS and business men. With the pros porous past of the long staple industry in the valley, the prospects for good prices this fall, and the consequent advance in the price of land, which even now is believed by many not to have reached it's limit many farmers and dairymen are figuring as to wheth- CT it is going to pay to hang on to the splendid herds of dairy cattle that have carried them over the hard times of the past and brought them to the time of cotton.
 A prominent rancher who has been in the dairy business for 20 years and who now has a number of cows and also a considerable acreage in cotton, said the other day, in speaking of the matter, that if he had given his cows away two years ago and put his land into cotton he would have been better off He emphasized also the drudgery of the twice a day milking. Another man whose acreage runs into the hun dreds declared that if cotton brought a high price this fall, at least 150,0OO acres would be put into cotton next year, and that there would not be feed enough raised to feed the work stock and the cows that then would be left. This man was simply guessing, but it | is the guess of a progressive business ! man and farmer who is, perhaps, as 1 closely in touch with the farming | community as any man in the valley.
 The two men are quoted as showing | the general opinion that appears to exist. There are very many people who are upholidng the dairy industry but the first rancher referred to re- ! piled in answer that those who are talking are not the ones whose land is in feedstuffs and who are milking a lot of cows in these days of cotton prosperity. The drain on the fertility of the land was then mentioned, and another man whose ability as a busi- ness man and farmer is shown in the several hundreds of acres and various business enterprises he owns, said: Well. time enough to think about that when the land shows the drain But it should be stated that the last speaker keeps a large herd of fine cattle and is growing a large acreage of alfalfa in addition to his widespread cotton fields.
 The foregoing is given merely to set forth the condition present in the minds of many farmers It would ap- pear from various interviews that but little thought is being given to the matter of soil fertility, and the surety of the COW through both the fat years and the lean her well-known recog- nized ability to grow a man into a competency, etc. To all of which sug- gestions the average cotton grower makes ren,y that "60-cent cotton beats them all"
 In Ors Day 1900 Crates Fifteen hundred crates of canta loupes from 10 acres picked in ont } day is the report from the J. o. Power' cantaloupe patch in Lehi. The pickins n had been going steadily forward, eacl day seeing the melons ready for ship ment taken off, but Tuesday of thi 2 week marked the peak thus far witt ! the enormous number of 1,50O crate V for the day, and even then the entir l amount was not gathered for lack o
 time. The yield in the Mesa vicinit,
 has been very gratifying, but the Leh
 country is especially adapted for tn r growth of the cantaIoupe.
 George A. Johnson Back from Hospta
 George A. Johnson returned yester
 day from a Phoenix hospital wher
 he had been for the past few days hay
 ing his eyes treated. MT. Johnson
 with his family and some friends, wer
 picnicing on the Fourth when someon Tipped a small piece of watermelo
 rind at him, striking him in the lei
 eye. Inflammation set in, requirin
 constant treatment, hence the hospita
 stay.