Arizona republican., 1921-01-08

usually succeeds best when there is a variety of crops.
 Let me mention for the purpose of advocating the following:
 FirSe A farming system based on the ownership or protective ownership of the land farmed.
 Second-An intelligently diversified agriculture including a definite rota- tion system. It is to be understood that mere diversification is no guar antee of success. A system of diversi- l fled farming must be intelligently planned; it must be intelligently fol- 1 lowed. In such a system there should l be one principal crop grown for the purpose of bringing a cash income from year to year. There may well be
 two principal crops.
 Thfrd-A permanent system of az
 riculture requires that livestock be
 kept on practically every farm. Let me suggest that every farmer
 (a) Raise each year approximately l to his farm and appropriate in his TO- l tation system
 (b) Raise a reasonable acreage of a special cash crop or of two different
 cash crops. The rotation system
 should be based on the fertility needs
 and the cultural requirements of tEf
 major cash crop.
 l A|J ENt1S6 aIuOBh IceQ so that
 only the concentrated feeds need to be
 bought for work animals and other
 stock kept on the farm.
 (d) Raise il-fmproving crops such
 as alfalfa and cowpeas
 (e) Raise crops of such kinds and of , such relative acreage as to make
 feasible an even distribution of labor throughout the year and to assure 2 cash income at frequent intervals.
 rl0 country meet to consider the problem. , Of the open country. 1 am proud tC 2 speak as the representative and cham. pion of the country. Let me urge tha the men of the city and the men o , the country meet often to conside such subjects as are under discussio tonight For it is to be understoo,
 that in such a region as the Sal ! River valley, city and country mus win or lose together Phoenix can no be the city it ought to be unless tn l, farming community that surrounds i makes the progress it ought to make n The business men of Phoenix an s Mesa and other valley towns shoult
 stand on common platform with tn
 business men of the farms of the val . ley. Together they should dectd e upon a broad policy of development } together they should work out a pro = gram of progress which all of them ca. e support; and together they shoul 5 work with united purpose to trans h form their plans into high achieve - ments for the Salt River valley an q the state of Arizona
 . The next speaker was H. c. Hear .- county farm agent, whose address WE ,e declared afterward to have been or .e or the most pertinent and interesting , = the evening. The summary of bis IT a marks follows:
 a H. C. Heard Talks
 T want first of all to bring to yol
 minds few facts concerning the crol ,e that are available to us in the Sa s River valley, but even before this d want to impress upon you all that tn m is no time to do anything reckless, e sr in fact, to be anything but conserv, le tlve. We as farmers cannot affol l. after the experience of the last year % jump without looking where are v
 liable to land. We must take stock 1t our resources and our capabilities ar <" help ourselves gradually to a fir l. foundation.
 le Now, the crops that we are sugges le ing to you do not carry with them tl S4 promise to make you vulgarly rich. b le they do promise the eventual clearil L2 up the present intoward conditio e. Therefore, we are asking that you u
  l. grains, sorghums, corn and Pima ca le ton. And I want you to rememb II that the mention of grains shou
 bring in your minds the subject
 livestock, without which any progra at is hardly worth discussing. he Barley is ordinarily safer tn IS wheat Under usual conditions, whe D. Is safer up to the middle of Januai oI but after this date barley is much pr .st ferable. It must be remembered, t ne that wheat has market of it's ov v while barley must find a market ne conjunction with livestock in sol oL el form. Attention should be paid, VI you contemplate a barley crop or wh,
 crop, in getting fin a plump, heavy see ,5 Ing. In the case of wheat, 60 pounds I n1, seed to the acre should bring good ] Ia turns, the farmer keeping in mind ,-o the time that it is estimated that cal h ful growing of this crop should res ra in bringing the result up from 2- ordinary 2S bushels an acre for t d- part of the world to the neighborhe ,a of 38 bushels.
 or+ Valleys Good Crops or The essential points to be watcf b. in raising wheat are the preparation u- good seed-bed. heavy irrigating les fore planting and no more water LII aly 1t becomes absolutely necessary
 dinarily, on heavy lands a good wat ws ing before planting and another the late March or the beginning of Al rst will prove the Ideal way. at- Corn as grain crop is not the m .S.5 successful thing in the world, beca- vs: this staple has not been bred to do v $50 in this climate. We have found t 0. the best varieties for the Salt Ri IT, valley are the good old Mexican Jl
 and Sacaton June kinds.
 ltal Milo maize and hegari are also q -3.6 crops. Feterita does not yield D ate ticularly we'll but it Is sometime.
 good crop to set tout after wheat. \ me comes an important warning. VI Tn planting grain sorghums you must Ia "a ure on some way to get of it, and Ihe only profitable way is in hogs or cal Aeo adding protein supplement, such silage, tankage. or other protein fo, Ins As far as alfalfa is concerned. nps manifold advantages of Hairy Per1v oA are so well known that there is no n
 :. to argue in its favor. Planting alf,