Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1908-12-10
Is Applying Modern
Methods to Cul-
ture of Crops
.COL0N|sTS PROSPEROUS
Results Obtained in Greeley
District in Colorado Can
Be Duplicated.
Especial Correspondence J

Springer, n. NJ, Dec. 10.-The set
tlement at Miami, eight miles west of
Springer, under the management of
! the Farmers Development companv.
IS doing very well, and is increasing
IN population. The settlers are from
Central Ohio, and are very hardy
class of people. They are also very
Irehslous and great church-goers.
Hfeat harmony prevails among them,
and good spirit and brotherly good will
are practiced
The farmers in the valley have or-
ganized local Farmers Institute.
which meets every Tuesday evening
IN the schoolhouse at Miami. This in
stltute is affiliated with the Territor.
lal Agricultural college. Professors
from the college and from the Terri
torlal Experimental station visit here
at intervals TO lecture, instruct and
inspect farming and answer oues.
tons. Today Professors Tinsley and
flemming from the college of agricul-
ture and Mechanic Arts at Mesilla
Park were here. The object of the
institute is to enable the farmers to
exchange ideas and arrive at the hest
methods of farming.
viii Specialize Crops.
They have also arranged to co-oper-
ate in the growing of certain intensive
crops to be supplied to the Wholesale
markets of the territory. This CO.
operation in crop selection and cul-
ture means production in sufficient
quantities to insure easy and Cheap
marketing ar top notch prices.
The crops which they will special
lze on next year are onions and cab
bage. which are sure staple crops in
this country. Other garden truck will
also be grown for the markets. The
profits from this class of farming are
almost unbelievable to an eastern
farmer, although taken as a matter of
every day knowledge in irrigation
communities of the central west.
The following is from the year book
OF the agricultural department for 1901
from an article entitled. Reservoirs
in Rocky Mountain States" The sta
tlstlcs are for the Greeley district in
Colorado where conditions are very
|similar to those here.
The average yield of cabbage was
10000 pounds per acre, and onions 200
sacks per acre. It is estimated that
800 cars of cabbage and onions are
annually shipped from Greeley. Five
acres of onions near Greeley produc-
lea this year 1920 sacks. which sold
Tor Sl.l5 per sack. Another five acres
produced 800 sacks which sold for
I$2 per sack or about $500 per acre"
One of the farmers here, H. G.
Chase had a garden of 3 ga acres this
year, from which he sold $4,000 worth
OF products. largely cabbage and on
IONS One patch So feet by Is feet
produced $500 worth of Giant Paschall
and White Plume celery. All such
products grown in this section are
famous for flavor and keeping prop
critics.
Market is Large.
The market cannot be satisfied. The
great coal camps of Dawson, Van
Houten, Yankee and Koehler. are with
in the county. The more produced the
easier the marketing becomes. Similar
Iprofits are made in the growing Of
grains and alfalfa, the latter often sell
ing as high as $40 per ton"
Miami citizens also cooperate in
the buying of their supplies. They
nave just finished unloading a car Of
the finest OF screened coal, which cost
only S3.25 per ton laid down in Spring
er. They are getting first-class COM
mercial lumber direct from the saw
mills laid down beside their founda-
tions at s14 per thousand feet.
Thirty-five of the farmers already
have their ground now ready for the
big results possible to irrigation farm
| ing, and with political conditions in
the country nndisturbed, and state
hood for New Mexico assured by the
recent election, the lands here will
grow in value by leaps and bonnds