Arizona republican., 1921-01-02
MAKE PLANS ID PLACE FARMING
 ON SOUND BASIS
Agricultural Program To Be Urged All Over Coun- ty Is Discussed At All Day Meeting Held Yes terday

The farm affairs committee of the chamber of commerce. supplemented by others representing the farming. banking and other interests of the valley. met at the chamber of com merce yesterday in an all-dav meet ing. It was a most important meet ing that ushered in the new year, the object being to outline an agricultural program for the county
 Dean w. w. Working of the college of agriculture of the University of Arizona arrived in the city early in Inc morning and presided at the meet ing. There took place a discussion of the problems incident to farming. It was decided to invite the public of the entire county to attend a town meeting to be held at the high school auditorium Friday evening, January 2, at 1880 o'clock. An important feature of this meeting will be an elaboration of the report submitted by Dean Working which was accepted and ap- proved by the committee. A series ot meetings probably will be held throughout the county it was decided.
 Phoenix, Ariz.. Dec. 30 1920. Dean w. w. Working.
 College of Agriculture,
 Tucson, Arizona.
 Dear Sir:
 In response to your request of De-
 
 sent the following tentative agricul- tural program for the Salt River valley:
 Tentative Horticultural Program For
 Salt River Valley
 In submitting this program we wish first to call attention to the follow ing facts and principles:
 l. The agricultural history of the world shows that there never has been permanent profitable agriculture A based on one-crop system. 2. The agricultural history of the world fails to show a single perma- rent profitable system of agriculture on a large scale that did not include tho handling of livestock. (Truck far ming. near cities and the various or chard industries made possible by commercial fertilizers may be con- sidered exceptions.)
 3. The agricultural history of the United States does show that the farming communities that have been most prosperous and the individuals that have been most prosperous have been those communities or those in- dividuals that have had from two to five important sources of income.
 (. A prosperous agricultural com munity has for it's foundation a home owning people.
 5. If an agricultural people are permanently to retain possession of their homes, they must so balance Vtleir agriculture as to provide:
 CD Food for the farmer and his family. CGarden products. poultry and poultry products. milk anu butter.)
 CD Rough feed for the livestock of the farm.
 (s) Livestock sufficient in numbers to utilize the by-products of the cash crops of the farm and the rough crops grown on portions of the farm that cannot be used to produce cash crops.
 (4) A cash income by producing some crops or products readily sold and converted into cash; and
 (5) They must provide for the per manent fertility of their land.
 To successfully do these things far mers must diversity and rotate theil crops, and more than that-they mus balance their farming operations"
 Tn balancing the farm operations, VI believe that, year after year, each far mer should Gal carry approximatel. the same number of acres in eacl crop; (b) grow a reasonable acreage of one or more cash crops; co provid enough rough feeds so that nothing but concentrates need be purchased il caring for the farm hvestock (dl. pro vide for growing some soil-buildihg O soil-improving crops; and (e) so ar range the farm operations that tn years labor and the years incom will be as evenly distributed as pos sible.
 Recognizing the facts and prtnci ples above enumerated, and warnin against the dangers of a sudde change in our agricultural system, W believe that, as rapidly as is consis tent with good farm mapageInen each farmer of the Salt River valle should so arrange his business an his cropping system that not less thu e5 per cent nor more than 60 per cer of his farm shall be seeded and KeI in Hairy Peruvian alfalfa; that nc more than 30 per cent of his land sha regularly be planted to pure Pin cotton; that not less than 70 nor moI than 40 per cent be planted to graf crops of some kind. Early Baa wLeat should be at least a portion this crop if plantings can be mat before January 15, 1921, and Janual in later years. If forced to plal after these dates. barley should given the preference over whea that, if not otherwise provided fo grain sorghums, corn, or other foral should be planted immediately follow inc the small grains; and that su