The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1908-05-23
r. 1. COMMISSIONER
VISITS TUCVMCARI
News Interviews Him Concerning
Crops Best Ada pied 10 This
Section.

owing to rainy weather on last
Friday evening the lecture which
was to have been given at the
Court House by +. S. White,
agricultural and horticultural COM
missioner OF the Rock Island rail-
road, was poorly attended. This
lecture was advertised in our last
issue and it would have been an
education to any new conner oi
this section, who anticipated max
ing a livelihood OF farming, and to
the old ones also il was a source
OF information well worth obtain
ing. Mr.. White has Tor years
made a study OF what to plant and
how to raise it in the various
states and is thoroughly CONVEX.
SAINT with the leading crops suited
to the climate, and his talk alone
would convince anyone that he has
his work at heart, and like the
great system he is working with,
is doing his individual part in the
upbuilding OF a new cmpire-.he
great southwest.
The Rock Island system is the
only railway in the United States
that has an agricultural depart.
ment. and veil il might he said, a
wide awake one, for il not only
gets the farmers here, but after
having them located, uses its best
efforts TO instill into their minds
the best and most profitable crops
to raise, and further gives them
free instructions at a great expense
how to do il.
Mr.. White in an interview with
the News last Friday, stated that
the principal idea was how to pre-.
serve the moisture in the soil and
to derive the most benefit from
same. He stated that his idea
was TO get the farmers together
and to find out what they needed
and to show them what could be
raised to the best advantage on
their lands. He advised the plant.
ing OF winter wheat and explained
that in any country where the
temperature did not 20 below zero
that il had proved a success, and
further stated that the climatic
conditions here were such that II
would be a great success and sug-
gested the planting OF the red
Turkish variety as one OF the hes,
adapted to this section. He also
advised the planting OF barley,
winter rye and winter oats and
demonstrated how these crops
could be made most profitable in
this country.
He advised the planting OF tn,
white Australian corn and showed
that it had been one OF the leading
crops in neighboring states. kafil
corn was also pronounced by him
as a good crop'snd that kafir corr
and milo maize produced about 20
to 80 per cent more as a seed croI
than sorghum in feed value, hui
that sorghum led them all as 9
fodder crop and he suggested sor'
ghum as the most profitable iorag,
for this section oil the country.
Colorado field peas, he stated
were also a good crop and coulc
be sown any time as early as gar.
den peas in the spring or fall. Tn,
Mexican bean is also a good stool
feed and can be raised album
dainty, The SOFA bean will grow
here easily and will do well anS
can be planted either in the sprins
or fall. Cow peas are a good croT
and there is no better feed TO
chickens.
Clover is good and will grow
where alfalfa will combine il with
Johnson grass and you will get goot
results. The Johnson grass car
be smothercd out with COW pea,
easily. Ii can be sown two bushels
OF winter oats and about twent'
pounds OF Johnson grass per ere
the time TO cut out Johnson with
oats is when oats is in doe and grass
is in bloom. Then break up lanC
and SOW COW peas and sorghum ont
bushel oil each per acre and follow
crop with winter rye and this vii
give feed Tor the entire winter
In this name the Johnson grass
/, can be gotten rid OF easily as i
takes about two years for the root
/, to set.
Monitoba hog millet also yield.
/ well and will thrash about as to ),
bushels per acre and is fine iee'
for hogs and chickens will als'
produce about two tons OF hay pc
, acre. This crop is of great wort
$ to the farmers, the stalk is gree
> yet when head is ripe.
Flax has been raised TO a grea
advantage in Colorado, and Their
is now about $4,000 acres unde
cultivation in that state and som
farmers have made 40 bushels pc
acre, and have cleared none
, on the crop than those CROWN.
wheat. Flax can be planted in th
; early spring and up TO the first O
une as II is a very quick crop.
Sugar beets do well in this eli
mate especially when crossed wit