The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-09-01
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acre 0IcndEM uauQlGu T1SQI Will MakS
an INDEPENDENT living Tor 4 family. Is
it not time for every land owner to be
gin to Create this value?
For I say to you again, that the
fruit growers Of the East-the wise
men Of the East-are coming to
country where their business is easi.
er, surer, and better thar it is in the
old land, just as o as they find u
where it is. But the people who are
here, and who know most of the facts
[ give you, should not wait for the
new corners. These plains should be
dotted every where with the small
orchards, with the great white wings
futtering over them.
How far the conditions for superior
orcharding extend, I do not know. 1t
Is a question of the development of
water. But believe that new sources
for water will be found as fast as PEG
pie claim 1t for use In all the great
valleys, all along the grim brown
plains, wherever springs burst out,
wherever stock water is found. wher-
ever the great floods of wasting rain
can be stored, there the orchard plan
ter will find his chance. All the way
from the borders of Mexico to the
Canadian dominion the possibilities
of orcharding will crop out-a full
thousand miles of high valley and
high plain.
Within a half century of years-witn
in the term of my own horticultural
actiyities-there has been working a
wondrous change in the ways of liv,
ing in America. Fifty years has mul-
tiplied the amount of fruit consumed
by our people by something more than
a hundred, while the population mas
but doubled nee inc a half. In that
early time strawberries and other
fruits of the garden were grown with
in a few miles of heir market. The
supply of a great town could be car
ried in n wagon. There were no
large orchards of any kind, excepting
some peach orchards in Delaware and
Jersey. Great apple orchards had not
been dreamed of. The finer fruits
were mostly found in the homes of the
iich. Consider the present movement
In commercial fruits. Whole train
loads of strawberries run now daily
northward over a score of lines of rail
way One section of Missouri sent
six hundred cars this year. One sta
ton in Delaware sen cars enough TO
have made a train three miles long.
The strawberry season in the big
cities is six months long, against the
three weeks of fifty years Ago.. h
immense supply of the other fruits is
in proportion. California sends six
thousand cars of summer fruits, n
twenty to thirty thousand cars of
oranges eastward each year. The
Georgia peach crop could not all be
moved last year for lack of cars.
Texas will soon have the same exasDer
ating trouble This notable change
in the way people live that a half
century has brought about is a whole
some one. 1t makes for better health
L AAAoN1o vi q hASL vi POObAO-
1t tends to better civilization. This
change will GO IN. More and ore
will our people eat fruits, and less
will they live on the grosser foods of
the farm.
The trend of our popular wants be-
and gardens-towards the crops of
horticulture, ices not this fact point
the way to the man who plans to sup
ply the needs of the future American?
And when we remember that a vastly
greater tonnage of human food a
be produced on a hundred acres in nor
ticultural crops than from an equal
acreage in farm crops we see at once
the significance of this fact, in its
bearing on the ability of our land to
support the great populations that
will throng the future.
For fully twice the population can
be supported on a given acre of land
when half the living is from the
crops which horticulture produces.
At the end of this century three hum
dred millions of men will be here to
be fed from the and of the United
States. AS we approach great densi-
ty of population, the tillage of soils
must become more intensive, and
those cultures and crops which pro
duce the greatest food supply will
rank all Others in importance to nan
kind. The greatest wisdom of the
men who control present conditions
in orr grand semi-arid country, will