Arizona republican., 1920-02-20

but feel the invigorating influence of the ozone that flows over the 1leids that have sprung up where was once the desert as one goes out along the beautiful Central Arizona drive and along the edge of the big canal that carries the life giving water, on through orange groves and farms to
 the little village of Scottsdale, the winter home of Vice President Mar shall.
 On the edge of this village is the 4o acre farm of John M. WalthaH- The modest home looks IS though it might have been designed by one who would tain perpetuate the old ancestral Ala bama home with q combination of the California bungalow In response to my knock he came to the door, and in half embarrasSement.h half testing man ner explained that as he was a Dach- elor and must of necessity attend 70 his own housework. I would ind the house upset and out of order, bus e.uriousN enough none of this was ap-
 parent, and despite the fact that he
 does the greater part of his farm work himself, the house was in as neat anu tidy a condition any woman would care to have her house. The spacIous living room was not unlike the den or any studious. thoughtful man. Books, magazines, pictures and trophies or the hunter were apparent everywhere
 The same neatness extended to the
 farmyard and farm. Then asked about the big yield of cotton that
 had heard of. Well, you see" he said,
 T came here, like so many others, for
 my health" To look al him now. the
 picture of health. strong and muscular,
 bronzed with the sun and air. it is hard
 to believe that his one thought few
 years ago was to recover his health,
 pecuniary gain from his farming op-
 erations being a secondary consider
 ation. but I took his word for it. Con-
 tinuing he said:
 This place was in alfalfa when
 bought it. It was in alfalfa for about six years. This particular field, which measures slightly less than seven acres was plowed up three years ago and has grown a crop of grain in the win ter and a crop of grain sorghum each summer, making two crops each sea son. Tn December il was plowed eight inches deep and disked at once with double cut-a-way disk In February it was again disked. dragged dow1s and leveled and ridged with a lister in rid
 ges four feet apart. Then came the irrigating By carefully manipulatine the water it was made to flow through the furrows between the ridges slow ly so that the soil would become thoroughly saturated The water was allowed to run for several hours When dry enough. the ridges were l dragged down flat. The 25th Of March the seed was planted, ? pounds to the acre the best Pima seed of course l Cultivation began as soon as the plants l were up enough to be seen in the rows 1 A disk cultivator was used. throwing l the earth toward the plants. The first 1 irrigation was about four weeks after l planting After the first cultivation ] the plants were thinned to 24 inches apart in the row Cultivation was ire l quent throughout the season as Ions i as it was possible to get teams through 1 between the rows. l irrigated as ofter 1 and whenever the appearance of the more moisture.
 1 But about the yield I asked. "Oh yes" he said. "on the seven acres. ol
 to be exact, a little less. I picked II
 bales that averaged full 800 pounds each"
 1 Cotton last year was worth 65 cents 1 a pound for the lint. As there is ap proximately 1900 pounds of seed fol each 300 pounds of lint and as thi. was worth s63 per ton, the gross value
 of the field was S4,016, or little ovel l $365 per acre.
 This year he has increased his acre
 more than last year, even with th' larger acreage. As cotton this year l is selling for so to S6 cents for lin and s75 for seed, his gross income per acre for seed run over $40o.