Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-02-03

sands OI doilurR Whlcn Now 10 ous
10 carry wealth to other lands where
they farm we'll.
May not part OF our surplus
Ky be well spent In encouraging bet.
ter system OF farming? A circular
issued by MIR. ]. l, Slower Of Por'
tales brings to my mind forcibly our
possibilities, He says, In speaking Of
his locality:
Precipitation The weather record
shows a rainfall for ten years varying
from eighteen 10 twenty-five inches;
an average OF twenty.one inches. No
foods or cyclones; the rains arc
showers; without long periods or
cloudy weather.
"Crops OF wheat, oats, rye. millet.
corn. maize. sorghum, alfalfa, melons
of all kinds, onions. potatoes. small
and orchard fruits are successfully
grown without irrigation. This year.
1905. We have vvery hne crops OF In.
dian corn. ranging from twenty-five
to fifty bushels per acre. The few
apple orchards which have come into
bearing have produced Ane fruit OF ex.
cellent quality. Many Of our agrIcul-
turists believe that our standard
money crops here win be apples and
Alfalfa. as soon az orchards can be
developed and alfalfa fields can be
seeded, Some alfalfa grown this
year has been cut three times with.
out irrigation. Onions have been rails.
ed here by irrigation at the rate Of
eight hundred bushels per acre"
ID there anv reason why the re
gion about Portales or In Quay county
can do what our own locality may
not duplicate? In the season OF 190f.
when II was dry. q large production
Of crops existed in Quay county. This
can be verified by inquiry Of people
who personally know II to be true.
On the johnson mesa near Ration
farming Il q successful occupation.
May We not do here what Is done
north and east Of us, by following the
same methods?
"
Many men OF large experience and
observation. believe conditions here
may be cnanred ycr the better a.
hev have been n Kansas. Oklahoma
aud Nebraska by improved methods,
One purpose Of this article is 70
arouse attention to subject closely
Identified with our material inter
ests.
Up TO this point tho foregoing was
prepared for publication on the day
Of It's date. Since that time, with MI
Betden, ! nave sent ont 70 various 70
caiities Of similar situation 10 ours
80 far ~ We can learn, twenty-siS
individual letters o. inquiry 70 ascev
tain from The anAMAra gthsretc hor
I M 3aFh1ino soessN01 hl6 IAsld leIaxll
mas by ActsIaf txpesience q proven 4
success. that We may pr0nf Dy tnt
enorts and experience of others. A
= later date wnen answers nave DeeE
received the results VIII De given.
IN the meantime ! most earnestly
80 - - n - - = - ~. ~
cultural association Tor North New
Mexico De formed composed mainiS
o. Farmers VINO are working out Y
Wact'cal way the problems TOT tnt
future such an organization ~
meeting frequently, ana mutuai con
suIlation ana narration OF actuM ex
perience. would give the dineren'
members the benent Of each otners
observation, ana mus disseminate
practical information. attach tnt
following clipping from the Hispant
American, pnDlisned AZ Wagof
Mound:
Our enterprinng business man. :
A. Bernai, - an enthusiastic advo
cate of dry farming !0r TINS secuoI
OF, New Mexico. From persOeai expo
rience Mr.. Bernal has found That
little Judgment IN the selection q sect
and energy to properly work the lans
Will result IN good crops He las
year raised some nne corn, Deans
sorghum, ETC.. on his property nea
Gallegos. and was very well satisfied
with the result He hpliQvpa that m,