Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-03-12

.Gpsp institutions as they exist through
the land There are, to-day, $3.50 stu
dents in these agricultural colleges in the
limited STATES they have go instructors
their yrounds and their buildings are
worth more than five and half million
Of dollars. and the permanent productive
funds " hich sustain them amount to more
than ten million of dollars; so you see
how mnch has arisen from that act thus
passed nv congress in the dark days OF
the rebellion,
This. with this institution, is its day OF
small things. but many. YOU know, have
'huilded better than they know" and
look ,np forward into the future we can see
what can he done in this beautiful valley
by An institution of this kind, which will
pathpr here AS the wears 90 on, not SIMPLY
scholars from Las Cruces and MesIla and
the villages around about, but the flower
of the whole of New Mexico, coming here
IN order that they NAV obtain such an
education that they may be worthy sons
of the great state that is to succeed the
territory of to-day.
And there is to be. YOU know, an tex
detrimental station" as well as college.
Nav | trouble you with few words with
regard to that for, in my mind, it is q more
impottant matter even than the ayricul-
tural college itself. You know what it,
intention is; 1t is an institution in which
experiments NAV he tried on different
kind of grain and fruit and newly intro
duced products, in order that the people
Of the territory at large may have knowl-
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the soil and climate Of New Mexico,
These institutions, like the agricultural
college, have increased and multiplied
throughout the land with great rapldity.
1t was only three years ago March =,
1881 that the "Hstch bill" SO called
was passed bv congress, which gave to
every one Of these stations the munificieni
sum of $l5 900 year with which to carry
on its experiments. They are a new
thing in this country they are compare
lively new in the world The first one
that was ever established was in Ger
many, at Moeckern, almost under the
shadow of the university OF Leipsic, where
a few farmers in the year 1851, nc further
back than that, effected an organization,
employed chemist and set apart Ger
tam piece of land for the purpose of es,
tabishlng an experiment station. That
MAS so successful and so useful that it
soon obtained aid from the government,
End from that small beginning they have
increased in the various continents OF
Europe, until to-day there are over 100 III
Europe, Asia and Africa. The first in
this country was founded in 1875, in the
OF, 70 of 4 |
few minutes ago, and hope you will not
forget it, the territory of New Mexico v as
the first civil division of our United States,
state or territory, to pass an act to estab-
fish an experiment station, tina. was in
1868, twelve years before the action in
Connecticut. Then, the next, far to the
west on the shores Of the Pacific, in Cali
fOrnia New York, New jersey and Norlh
Carolina soon followed, and to-day there
are lortv-six in the country, having $40
trained investigators, and the United
States APPROPRIATION for this purpose las,
year was 1858, 900, supplemented bv Sl25,-
600 from states, making $720, 900 that was
spent in this country in 1889 on expert
nlent stations. Usually figures seem dry
things, but these are living things, as they
tell Of the us, iuness of these institutions
to the people for the people of the United
States are practical pc, ple and do no,
spend $4,000 Il year unless they are sure
that much good will result.
Nov, about our own. | hold, Mr.. Chair
man, that there is 10 part of the United
States where an experiment station is SO
IMPORTANT and SO valuable us it is here in
New Mexico. in the east the states are
small, ans are quite similar in the gen
that which succeeds in Connecticut, will
succeed in Massachusetts and Rhode
Island; that which does well in Delaware
will do well in Maryland, and so on; but
none of the rules which hold good there
are n criterion for US. and the results even
of the experiment station of Colorado are
Of no value to us. Our climate is differ
ent, our altitude is different; we can raise
hundreds of things here which thew can
not raise in Colorado. Take the catalogue
OF a Colorado nursery, and look at the Va.
rleties of fruit which they recommend for
culture there,-no cherries but the Rich.
mond or Morello, no APRICOT but the Rus
sian apricot, no plum but the Chi, kasaw
or the Japane,e varieties; none of the
lucious fruits that are to be found here
and so YOU see the experiments of Colo.
RADIO are of no value to US; and YOU 90 TO
California, on the other side, and there
they have humid climate the reverse OF
ours, and they have low altitude, as
distinguished from our high altitude. We
are an empire OF ourselves, and We need
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