The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-04-10
AGRICULTURE WILL BE
OUR GREATEST INDUSTRY
Marvellous Development of New Mex
leo Farming. agricultural Ex-
perts Firm Believers in the
Future Great Pros
perity of NJ. M.

perity of N. M.
Farmers.
From Albuquerque Journal
Professor t. d. Tinsley and Profes-
sor Fabian Garcia, in charge of the
experiment station of the New Mexi
CO College of Agriculture, il Mesilla
Park who were in Albuquerque yes
terday to address a meeting of the
farmers of the Rio Grande valley, are
| firm believers in the future greatness
of New Mexico as an agricultural
community.
Both Mr.. Tinsley and Mr.. Garcia are
thoroughly trained experts. VINO III
derstand soil and climatic and crop
conditions in New Mexico better than
any other men in the vest. Both
have made a deep and exhaustive
study of conditions in this territory
and both pronounce agriculture to be
the future great industry of the ter
ritory n the industry which will
take its place above cattle. sheep min
ing and every other industry.
Professor Garcia is now in active
charge of the experiment station at
the college. Professor Ti1sley, for the
past three months has been visiting
the farming communities of the entire
territory organizing farmers institutes
which are expected to and u%ndoubted-
ly will have a marked influence on the
advancement of scientific farming in
New Mexico.
ITO the man who has been familiar
with farming conditions in New Mex
leo during the past ten years, and who
is familiar with them at the present
time. the tremendous development
now going On in all section is an I'M
dying marvel" said Professor Tins
ley to the Morning Journal. 81 have
been in practically every Farming
community in the territory within the
past few months, AID l nav een this
development with my own eyes and l
know just how far reaching it is. New
Mexico is going to be an agricultural
country. Farming will be it's leading
industry and it will 1ot be a great
while now until the tilling of the soil
takes it's place at the head of our
wealth producing activities. The peo-
pie of this territory are just beginning
to realize what can be done with a
little land and a little water. The
growing demands for homes has driv-
en- thousands of farmers into New
Mexico from the states and these
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selves that the soil is rich and that
water is to be had, if not enough for
one crop, then enough for some other
crop. The land is being taken up.
The boom il farming is not confined
to any one section. 1t is as marked
in the San Juan Valley as it is in the
Pecos. 1t is going to be seen in Col
fax county and in the Rio Grande
valley from end to end. Even in Taos
county where according to the general
literally thousands of acres will very
shortly have seer reclaimed and brot
into active production. 1t has been
discovered and the farmers have come
to know that it does not take an
enormous quantity of water to raise
crops in New Mexico. They are learn
ing what scientific methods and a
thorough understanding of soils will
do for them, and there is more and
more of practical application of scien-
tific principles.
Il have just come from Maxwell
City, in northern New Mexico, where
one of the biggest farming enterprises
ever instituted in New Mexico is be-
ing put under way on and which I'M
til a res g was deemed fit for no.
thing but grazing. 1t is but one of
the many similar cases and the end is
not yet. The fact is that the develop
ment of the agricultural resources of
this territory has just begun. This
development is going on until New
Mexico will be one of the richest OF
the agricultural states.
81 am a firm believer in the posi-
bilities of dry farming. The more one
studies these possibilities the more
firmly is one convinced that they are
real and that they will bring material
and satisfactory results. Dry farming
however, is not a homesteaders' pro-
position. 1t is not an undertaking to
be attempted on a small scale. The
man who attempts dry farming on 100
acres, with nothing but he product
of that 160 acres to support himself
and his family, is going to have trou-
BILE. for there will be years in New
Mexico when the average rainfall nee
essary will not be had. But upon an
extensive scale, n under scientific
methods, dry farming is going to sue
There are one or two section of
New Mexico where the dry farming
possibilities have been overestimated.
The lean year has not yet come, but
it will come, undoubtedly and to the
dry farmer who is not prepared for
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