Arizona republican., 1921-03-20
VALUE OF DAIRY COW IN THE SALT RIVER VALLEY
 l DEMONSTRATED BY FACTS

CTS, plus a years credit is bound up within the bagging that covers the thousands of bales of cotton that await an uncertain market in an indefinite future.
 Gradually the fields are being cleared of the cotton stalks and in place of the 18000 acres that was planted last year we will have possibly 75,000 acres and a greatly increased alfalfa acreage. There will be great acreage of Sudan grass, grain sorghums. sweet clover and other forage crops. for which. unless conditions change, there will be no market. Prices of alfalfa hay in some of our neighboring states have dropped to approximately the prices which ob tained here in 1915-16 or less than $10 a ton. Unless some measures are adopt ed for financing the farmers who have all their working capital tied up in cotton, and their credit exhausted also. there is not going to be cure effected for the general bilious attack from which the valley is now suffering.
 Solution in Livestock
 Livestock to consume at a remunera tive profit the alfalfa hay and other forage, would appear to be the solution Farmers who year ago turned their cows off for any price that was offered and plowed up the fields of alfalfa for the fleecy staple, are now, many of them at least, looking again with favor upon the old COW that in spite of the double daily duty of milking, does offer regular monthly revenue that is almost as certain as taxes, and more sure than the income tax, for some have skipped that this year.
 Unfortunately there are now cows for sale, for the cows that were sold during the past two years or more have gone-some out of the country and some to the butcher. Still more unfor tunately money for buying cows is hard to get, and again it is possibly still more unfortunate that there are some that would make capital of the mis- fortunes of the farmers and would bring in cows which are cows in name only and that will not give milk enough to justify the prices which will be asked. We have seen tfe folly of this kind of high finance, but neverthe- less it is an ever present danger and farmers that are anxious to get back into the dairy business will be wise in insisting that only the best of cows are bought. A good COW is a good COW without regard to breed. color or the way her last owner voted. A poor COW is constant source of grief, for she consumes almost as much as the COW little, although with as memorable a regularity as the months fly past. the payments on the poor COW as well as the good fall due.
 Good Cows Necessary
 Good cows will help market the thou sands of tons of feed which will be growing on the Salt River valley farms this season. Poor cows will not. Every human being in the Salt River valley should use all of his or her influence in bringing into the valley only the best of cows.
 How to- finance the dairymen is a problem, it is the big problem The wise men are wiser now than they were a year ago. They are not plant ing much cotton. and they are looking ahead with a broad vision of what this valley should be- and what it will be when we have settled down to a steady rotation, that can be followed year in and year out, without chasing rainbows here and there, but steadily following a rotation plan that fits each individ ual farm. To bring about this much desired millennium with as little loss as desired millennium with as little loss as problem of financing as soon as pos sible.