Arizona republican., 1921-03-20

ollOWO Hat DuS1llCSS Ol ? Dairying Has Been Base I Of Wealth For Hundreds ! Of Prosperous Farmers
 bDaniel Webster in his celebrated Knockout answer to one Hayne, pre- fSced his famous remarks by saving in somewhat classical language: Gentle nken before we proceed further into the unknown desert let us climb a cactus aad take look over the country and s@e if we can't find a way out without pencturing any more tires or breaking aSspring,' or words to that effect.
 slf man buys a factory or a farm, .aed has good business head, he takes az inventory the first thing, before a wheel or a furrow is turned. When the doctor calls to see his patinet for the fist time he makes a diagnosis of the case. His diagnosis is an inventory, s6 to speak, of all the symptoms of a mans anatomy that are not at nature irPended that they should be. Calmly add impersonally he takes into consid- eFRtion all the facts that are presented and applies a remedy that, theoretical lx at least, should be helpful not to one disorder but to all. In other words, he t4es to get at the root of the trouble add does not allow, himself to be led astray by trying to cure an ingrowing toe nail, when a dose of castor oil is needed
 The Salt River valley is a great country. The government reports indi cate that the value of our crops per acre for last year led all other states ipe the union. We are all agreed that oAHs soil is productive, that We have the sunshine and the water to grow almost sraything in as great an abundance, ard ofcas splendid quality as the same car l. world Yet in spite of these natural advantages and the man. made advan- tages. the Salt River valley lacks that degree of prosperity which we so much desire. In other words the valley is sick. We are pretty well agreed on that point, although there is some di varsity of opinion as to the underlying caifse and more difference in ideas of thu remedy to be applied. rSuppose we emulate the memorable example of Daniel Webster and from tlee heights of giant cactus try at least to figure out where We are at tp1 borrow classical phrase of the street, and incidentally to guess 'how we got that way
 Dairy Beginners
 When the Roosevelt dam was first haIilt, folks began to wonder what we would raise here that would bring big money from the eastern states. We raise grain which is made into flour for local consumption, or fed to hogs which supply local butcher shops. Fruits which get no farther than the mere outlying districts. A few range steers were pastured and butchered for local use. Dairy cows supplied milk, butter srr,fi cheese for home needs, and so it was that up until few years ago we were merely swapping dollars. Less farm products being shipped out than the value of the merchandise shipped in The big need was some crop that could be shipped out and good honest American money would come back for-it.
 Alfalfa at one time looked like the real thing. There was a time once when the mines used a great deal of alfalfa hay to feed the horses and mules that were necessary to the oper- ation of the mines a decade or so ago. Electricity and gasoline supplanted the horse and mule in the affections of the efficiency experts of the mines and al- falfa hay lost it's best market.
 Sugar beets. lettuce and cantaloupes have had their champions well as their ups and downs. Oranges, dates olives, potatoes and almost every known field plant or garden vegetable has at one time or another been herald ed as the big money crop that would bring the glittering coin from across tl1ee continent.
 mo The Coming of Cotton
 cSome of these crops are good They have proved profitable and will bt profitable again, but no one Of then has1 as yet proved that i+ - the ont anf only crop which may be planted year in and year out on the same place and make a fortune for the planter every year. When long staple cottor came it looked the real thin-the DO of gold at the end of a long rainbow Then when it had gotten nicely under way. Kaiser Bill started his row among his neighbors and upset all markets and also our calculations relative to tn long green that cotton would bring.
 With the discovery of the use of Ions stable for tire fabrics long staple cot ton was given new lease or life an pElces Justified the belief that at las fb~ millennium had come, real mone. crop had been discovered. In tn rr1h9tntime' as the movie titles read, al falfa farmers in search of market 10 their hay, had found that the dairy GOV wsis not at all a bad market. To b sire to collect required a twice da, irterview. 365 days in year, but it wa a uretty sure thing, and with good COW nrices of alfalfa sold to dairy cows wer fair to good. and sometimes better.
 Many man who had nothing bu good health, had gotten a start b venting A few cows of one man and fewacres of alfalfa of another and ha byshard and persistent effort mad good. Those men and hundreds of oth CTS could not resist the allurements c sG9 so and 100 cent cotton ana th dairy cows were doomed
 bn The Cow Disappears
 From the vantage point of the cactu s,I1nmit we look back to one short yea a aAo. when wise men pleaded with tn faFmers of the valley. begging wit tears in their eyes and a choke in thei vddces not to sacrifice their cows,-no tof blow up their alfalfa fields, but 1is a part only of their farms for cot tdp and keep on with the COW that ha h;sd since time of Jacob, the reputatio of being a sure thing The farme s;4d. your argument is good, agre wE h you perfectly. Diversion or croI isefine for the other fellow. dalrylng
 a Esplendid industry-for the commu nifv. Me for the cotton, this is my tim to& clean up," and the wise men WeI o,r and wept-and planted cotton.
 Row looking from the top Of the caC t,E we can see in all this great Valle nh few dairy cows left as compare ,v9b the great herds of few years az Hsx see inc gin yards and the ware