The Oasis, 1893-06-29

I I lill t III' A rli lllll '!!! ti'. ) Last Thursday K K Farriugton be began - gan began harvesting his 2u aere apricot crop south of l'hu nix on Salt, river, lie has oixly three names on his pay roll of men picking, sulphuring and spreading in t he sun: of women and children cult ing. stoning and arrang arranging - ing arranging in trays for the bleaching and drying process. Mr. Farriugton thinks the sun lcat,s any evaporator yet invented, and so spreads his golden fruit on wiooden trays three feet by twenty inches in area, and one and a half inches deep. These trays must be laid on the ground, and altout. an acre is covered w it h t hem in all stages of dessicat ion. from the bright yellow when tirst. exposed, to the rich Cal California - ifornia California redwood tint that indicates readiness for market . i The cannerv -rets -tooo ooiiuds a day and 1 his makes the pickers rustle to keep t he feminine cut ters and spread spreaders - ers spreaders in fruit. A new splitting machine, t he first introduced in this territory, dissects from sihi to Hmk) Miunds hourly, and removes all but per cent of the pits. The women do not like to handle t his output, prefix prefixing - ing prefixing to cut and stone the apricots as they come in loo pound I Mixes fresh from the orchard. P.ut the splitting machine saves the labor of about twenty men. To remove the ticys from the women's shady cutting and spreading quarters, little Hat cars are run on wooden rails, iron shod, north, south. jeast and west to the sulphuring i tanks, three of which are now run run-! - ! run-! ning with a daily, or nightly, capacity i of I'lUMH). Two days of sun exiiosure I like the present complete the curing, I Mini i.iinmiri'i:il i-v:i I u it'll t ed ani'icots await Chicago buyers, who have already examined Mr. Farrington's methods and agreed to take all he can turn out. His miniature railroads do t he work of a dozen men. Six sound:, of fresh apricots yield one pound of dried fruit. At present rates, this realizes a littie over two cents er fresh pound. I ti two weeks the south side orchard - will he gathered when Mr. Farriugton will move these forces and machinery to his ."n acre apricot tract a few miles west of IMm'iiix. Jtlazotto. rinntliiK Tecnim. The grow ing of pecans is destined to become one of the future indus industries - tries industries of the west. Many parlies who have been successful in raising these nuts recommend the planting of the seed in the fall where the trees are to grow. The reason for this is that in transplanting the long tap roots are frequently cut when taking the trees from the nurseries. Seed should he procured from as near the same lati lati-aude - aude lati-aude and soil that the trees are to he grown as jHissible. Southern grown nuts will produce varieties not hardy enough for the more northern lati latitudes. - tudes. latitudes. It is recommended that about one one-fourth - fourth one-fourth of a stick of dynamite be ex exploded - ploded exploded about two feet under the sur surface, - face, surface, at lhetioint where a tree is to be nlantrd. This is to assist long tap roots in penetrating the rub-:-urbv:e soil ar.d will rreatly facilitate the trie rr.vth. About oco inch is tho-I roixr depth to plant the Deed.. A bushel of nuts will grow tbout 500

Frank S. Chapin contributes the fill'nvlii',' art i-l- to tin lrrigat i,n Age: Lessons from practical experience of one actively engaged in the devel development - opment development of arid lands may "prove" useful to others in similar urnl-r-takings. 1 11 the present enu rprise t here was in our favor very eheap land, nearly level of good quality, in a climate well adapted to stone fruits, ligs and raisins, and underlaid at an average depHi of about five hundred feet, with artesian water. Wells in this vicinity How all the way from two hundred thousand to live million gal gallons - lons gallons daily, Artesian wells .'Oil feet deep, with nine inch casing, cost an average of tfl.ODU. 1'reseiiL estimates are that a Huw of one million gallons daily with it reervoir,ls sufficient for a quarter sect ion of deciduous fruit trees when irrigated by furrows and basins. We can only count upon a rainfall of four inches. Clearing the sagebrush was done by hitching half a bar of railroad iron behind a four-horse team and wagon, twenty or thirty acres were broken down daily, and a man with a mat mattock - tock mattock loosened what roots were left. This was raked by four horses hitched to a long scantling tilled with harrow teeth, and kepi in place y tin tin-driver's - driver's tin-driver's ribiug. very much as he does on a "buck" scraper. Part of the brush was burned on the ground, after saving up n year's tlrevvood. Probably better work would have been done by hitching a four horse team to each end of a whole bar of railroad iron, and having the driver?, ride cachend. As it was. the clear clearing - ing clearing done by contract, cost !.- per acre, and that done by days' work lev than $1. In leveling, the design was to locale wells upon the highest point, ditches upon all ridge and irrigate in furrows To make this practical it was neces necessary - sary necessary to take, two feet, oil from some of the knolls and lill in hollows. This work was done by four-horse Fresno scrapers. They would level a yard in four or live loads. It was also necessary to throw up grades for artificial levees to connect the natural ridges. These were laid out by the engineer, and grade stakes driven once in almut one hundred feet. When I he men learned not to disturb these, hut to sight from one to another until the grade was finished between t hem. and then lill up the gap where the stake stood, t hey got along pretty well, but tlu-y never seemed to learn I hat it did not need as w ide an embankment where there was only a one-foot lill as where t here was three. it was hard for t hem to see that it was poor economy to buiid the grade from the nearest dirt if one was ob obliged - liged obliged to lill the hole with dirt from a distance. They have made the mis mistake, - take, mistake, t oo. of a great many dhg.tnal and crooked ditches that run in such a way as to interfere with rows of trees, waste ground and make cultivation difficult. With a heavy four-horse plow and a M'l'Hp':!' the. (j(i ii's lirjve In en very 1 i. ilv IhrTvri ftit -fte the prade ;va y 1. T,'C. h r ""pJ a cvi du;l of trouble wfcer.-- the- br:-.te w.ro made so light that the slrre was

ble Work that present experience would enable us to avoid, we have st ill been able to bring t he total cost of team work", from the time the sage sagebrush - brush sagebrush was standing until the orchard ' was plant ed. w il bin h) per acre. Many holes have lecn burrowed out by rats, gophers and badgers. These absoi b a gt eat deal of water, and leave the ground very uneven where they settle. This leads us to think that we made a mistake in trying to rush the clearing ami plant planting - ing planting of a half section through in ninety days, rather than to have taken the tiin" to settle the ground by deep cultivation and thorough (irrigation before planting. Perhaps there are few methods of acquiring more expensive knowledge than for one who has been successful in some other business to assume that fruitgrowing is a simple calling, with profits in exact proxut ion to acerage. and then buy his wisdom as he goes along. Ninety days ago this half sect ion was like other sagebrush plains. Now the jwach trees are in leaf and artesian water runs every everywhere. - where. everywhere. Way for (onkliiff r'KK- A few drops of vinegar in the water for 1 touched eggs makes them set pro) pro)-erly - erly pro)-erly anil keeps the whites from spread spreading. - ing. spreading. A squeeze of lemon improves scram scrambled - bled scrambled eggs. It should In added while they a re cooking. Asparagus tops are nice in an ome omelette. - lette. omelette. Toast spread with pale foi de gras and covered w ith scrambled eggs is a fine lunch dish. (.'old fried eggs are good fur salad or may be revamped by dipping them in fritter batter and frying. Fresh eggs taken from the shell and boiled in half a pint of sweet cream, seasoned with salt and pepper, make a delicious breakfast dish. They should cook only two minutes in the boiling cream. Slewed tomatoes, grated cheese and I a co'lple of chopped upboih'd sausages make a Hue sauce to serve with boiled 'ggs. Any sort of an omelettecan be made by t he addil ion of cither sardines to matoes, oysters, ham. cheese, kidney, I mushrooms or maccaroni. or, in fact, ! n !i-t?vf ! one desirf-or has on hind. It 0: Unrated that th;ro arc il: th Vnitod Stale;. 10.j06.)0 hoiits, or nr.e to every four persons

other end of it. For tilling a milk can. an alfalfa fed cow is equal to a handy pump. Cattle love it. hogs fat fatten - ten fatten upon it. fowls relish it and a hun hungry - gry hungry horse will want nothing else. Sees will leave all other bloom for alfalfa. I f your land will grow alfal alfalfa - fa alfalfa you will have the drop on dry weather. Once started on your land, i.lfalfa will stay by you like Canada thistles or a first class mortgage, hut (nly to make you wealthier and hap happier. - pier. happier. Try it. liret Koot Sugar. lHc.hard liird in an article in the Chino Valley Champion, gives the following statistics on beet sugar, which should attract attention in Arizona: The annual consumption of sugar in the United States being .V7o.0(Hi .V7o.0(Hi-000 - 000 .V7o.0(Hi-000 pounds, would warrant the erect erection - ion erection of some .'J(K) factories like the one at Chino estimating the output of that at 12,inx).00 pounds. This would represent the invest invest-nicnit - nicnit invest-nicnit of about $l,0,tHl0,0iH) of jierma jierma-nent - nent jierma-nent capital on this coast, with a saving to the country of over that amont in cash sent abroad for the purchase of foreign sugar, and a dis distribution - tribution distribution among our farmers, laborers and mechanics of an amount equal in value to the quantity of sugar man man-u - u man-u f ac t u red , probably U0,0O0,00Q. The Scientific American recomend this remedy for diphtheria: "At the first indications of diphtheria in the throat of a person, make the room close, then take a t in cup and iiour hi I a quantity of tar and turpentine. equal pans. Then hold t he cup over the tire so as to till the room with the fumes. The patient on inhaling the fumes will cough up and spit out the membra nous matter, and the diphthe diphtheria - ria diphtheria well soon pass off The fumes of the turpsntine and tar loosen thf thf-malter - malter thf-malter in the threat, and tfcui aford tho relc-il that has haed tte still ot physicians,

trees. They come int." bearing at; from live to ten years, according to t he ual ure of the soil and climate. Most all of the irrigated valleys of the west will produce the pecan. It grows wild in Texas. Louisana and other Southern Mates. Its nature is similar to that of the black walnut, requiring but little water and yet will stand a large quantity. The trees may lie planted 'round barnyards and will soon produce good crops in addi addition - tion addition to furnishing abundant shade and act ing .is windbreaks for shelter sheltering - ing sheltering stock. They would make good borders for orchards and fields ami might be planted along the irrigating ditches. If th. Mints are not procura procurator - tor procurator fall planting trees can be pur purchased - chased purchased In t he spring from tirst class nurseries. Alfalfa. Alfalfa is a curious grass, but a pay paying - ing paying one. it never fails or goes into the hands of a receiver. It is weather weatherproof, - proof, weatherproof, for the cold doesn't injure it and the heat makes it grow all the. better. A winter Hood will not, drown it. and a lire will not kill it. It loves water and bores to reach it. As a borer, it. is equal to an artesian well. When growing, there is no stopping it. liegin cutting a twenty twenty-acre - acre twenty-acre field, and when your last load of hay is handled at one end of the field. he grass is ready to cut again at the

much less than two to one, and where a head of water was run in the ditch that had not been well settled. Furrows Im- planting ti s were made with a twenty-inch listing plow, calculated for three horses, in I'hisc prairie soil. We should have bought one as si long as a mad plow and cal calculated - culated calculated for eight horses in hard ground. When water was run in these furrows ami the ground thor thoroughly - oughly thoroughly soaked by checking so often as to leave 1 he furrows all full, t lie holes for trees were easily dug, especially if the sub soil plow was run in the bottom of the furrow after it was soaked and lx fore it was planted. liy running the water a second lime through the furrows, alter the trees were planted, the ground was well settled about the roots and the tree given a good start in life. With more resters than rustU-rs niiiiniL' the teamsters, and considera