Arizona republican., 1921-01-08

in the spring is not the way to get best stand It should be planted in October. but as this is not possible this year, milo should be planted early and pre- parations made to plant alfalfa next October.
 Dairy Industry
 "The dairy industry. Let me say with regard to this that in bringing IbacIz our cattle we should bring bet l ter grade than went out of here. In l addition. we should have feed for the cows when they get here, and we ought | fo feed them right, remembering that one of the troubles in former years has been that the cattle in the valley ! were underfed.
 Now we go to hops The DIE point concerning hogs is the fact that as 1 long as we have packing plant in the | valley we are going to have hogs com ing in that are afflicted with cholera and We must have an efficient super
 vision, through the state livestock
 sanitary board or some other board
 over every hog shipped into thls
 country. And again, the man should
 be shot at sunrise or half shot before
 midnight. who allows hog near an
 rrigating ditch. I myself have seen ! hog with cholera wallowing in an ir-
 rigating canal the waters of which were
 distributed to 20 or 30 farms. This sort
 of thing has got to stop.
 We now come to things that we
 ought not to do. I have heard as many
 pieces of advice about this as you have but We must beware of too speedy desire to get back our losses and re- , frain from the idea that everything that has lustre is good. One of these things ! is sweet clover. This plant has it's
 place-f you want to put up with it's disadvantages. It is a good, quick crop, but 1t raises Cain with .ditches, it is hard to raise properly, cattle must : get acquainted with it and it does not command ready market It does not ! compase in any way with alfalfa, al- : though some farmers have grown 1t , successfully.
 ! Broom corn is interesting, but as a 1. matter of fact most of us do not know f anything about growing it. The sup . ply and demand for this product is such f that the market Is easily glutted, which 1, makes it a game not to be gone into 4 heavily. We of the Salt River valley q should get acquainted with it, but we 6 should also remember that there is . much more room in the world for alfal- c ia than for broom corn. The same holds !; With regards to grapes. This is 8 - fcur-year game, and there is no sure n marketing system. This crop should be q gone into as a speciality.
 l. Cotton Growers Should Organize : The next speaker was W. S. Stevens, U president of the Arizona American
 Egyptian Cotton Growers association ., Mir. Stevens opened his address by de- ls scribing the methods which have beer ie used by the growers of oranges al- u monds and raisins in California 1T s- amalgamating the farmers into 8 solio
 organization and then so directing tha'
 organization as to make the marke
 
 9s lustrations to show that the same lt thing can be done by the growers O. Pima cotton in the Salt River valle. IS through the formation of an organiza IT, ton that will give the farmer receipt a- for his cotton having 8 real valu' I'd through being backed up by a suffi to ciently capitalized organization and b, Ve the baIed cotton held in warehouses or This was the plan which won the en Id dorsement of the meeting later. m Mir Stevens also entered upon al
 examination of conditions in Egypt. 0 t. which he had been informed by recen ne cablegrama The cost of production c Ut long staple cotton there has been in tn ng neighborhood of 56 cents Q pound, h 'n- said, with rents running as high 8 SC S15o an acre. Conditions have bee Ia, such, he declared, that the farmer IL have decided not to cut their produc CT ton of staple more than one-t third onl Id after they had. q tentative promis of from the government that minimum lm price for the cotton will be available.
 How the w. U. Assn Helped an F. A Reid. president of the Sa sat River Valley Water Users association ". followed President Stevens with de e. scription of the efforts being made DO, that association to cut expenses and m, devise plans to help the farmers wit in the coming crops.
 me The discussion was then thrown ope If to the house. After various member eat of the audience had spoken, motior sd- concerning the worth of the work of the Arizona American Egyptian Cot re- ton Growers association and also CT all dorsine the recommendations of tt re- county farm bureau and the chambs ult of commerce were adopted. The farm the ing recommendations follow: his Recommendations Adopted ,od In the readjustment of affairs, dul
 ing the time when an uncertain reis
 ton exists between the cost of prt led duction and income from various agr of cultural products and when the relati' be- profits or losses in two comparab 1til tcrops is at best inaccurately foresee Dr. the safest and best and probably mo er- profitable system of agriculture for Il in Salt River valley presupposes: Dril 1. Adherence to crops of known b
 havior and market.
 ost 9. Leaving uncertain or unknov use crops alone, or growing them only { yell a small and strictly experimental seal hat g. Dividing the risk of the individu yer farmer between from two to fl une sources of inconce
 f. Growing such crops as will bril pod in an income at several seasons of | ar year.
 8 With relatively few exceptions t low general farms of the Salt River wall hen should not have less than 25 nor mo fig- than 50 per cent of the acreage the Hairy Peruvian alfalfa: not more th tile 30 per cent in Pima cotton; not le as than 20 nor more than 70 per cent ods. grain. Until Jan. 1. early Baart whe the Is likely to prove the most profital rian grain crop to grow for market, wh leed after that date until Feb. bari ]