i6 Bulletin 85 



there were three creameries and one evaporating plant to care for dairy 

 products; one canning plant and one sugar factory (both of which 

 were inoperative during 191 7) ; four flour mills to care for grain 

 products ; eight cotton gins and one cotton oil mill to care for cotton 

 products ; and two pickling plants for olives. During the 1916 season 

 four creameries instead of three were in operation, but at the time of 

 writing three creameries and one evaporating plant were handling 

 larger quantities of butter fat than had been handled when the fourth 

 creamery was in operation. A second evaporating plant was in process 

 of construction during 1917. The total number of cotton gins in iyi6 

 was five. 



Some interesting changes have occurred during the five years 

 ending in 191 7. During this period there was a very rough and un- 

 systematic rearrangement of agricultural activities. Dairying gradu- 

 ally has been coming into its own as one of the primary sources of 

 farm wealth in the Salt River Valley. This gradual growth of the 

 dairy industry appears to have been merely a healthy development of a 

 profitable industry. Long staple cotton prior to 191 7 occupied a com- 

 paratively modest place in the general planting scheme. The sudden 

 increase in demand and the success attending the experimental grow- 

 mg of the two leading long staple cottons in the Salt River Valley, 

 caused a phenomenal increase in the acreage planted in 191 7. The 

 production of market hay has fluctuated from season to season, while 

 the total acreage in alfalfa for the five years ending in 1917 was fairh"^ 

 constant. During the growing season the farmer usually has had his 

 choice of selling large quantities of his hay for shipment or feeding it 

 to stock on the farm. The condition of the baled hay market usually 

 determines whether or not any considerable quantity of hay is shipped. 

 Grain production has varied directly with the market price at harvest 

 time. A season of low prices has almost invariably been succeeded by 

 a period of decreased acreage. The livestock industry has been a fairly 

 constant quantity, although war demands have curtailed the normal 

 increase which might be expected along this line. The most notable 

 fact concerning the livestock industry in 1917 was the great decrease 

 in the number of hogs over previous seasons. Data compiled by the 

 iJnited States Reclamation Service shows a decrease on the Project 

 !n 1917 of about 60 per cent in the total number of hogs. 



It is not strictly correct to state that there has been no community 

 taction in the Salt River \'allev. There alwavs has been a realization 



