Bisbee daily review., 1909-03-30
DRY FARMING Is
 STARTED IN MEXICO
ZerferiRO Dominguez, Rich HaCiendado, Is Father
 ing Undertaking

The Mexico City Record says scicn.
 fife dry farming is taking hold down here and the farmers expect to see great areas of territory reclaimed by this method. Says the Record:
 Whole territories of fertile lands at 60 cents an acre, armies of lab orers at cheap prices and no nees' sity for fri sation even in regions parched for months in the year by the equatorial winds-these constitute the promised land of farmers into which zerferino Dominguez, the Moses of Mexican agriculture. Is now ready to guide migrants from the United States. in consequence of his, epoch. making importation of the process oi dry farming from Tunis, Africa.
 Like the Hebrew laWgiver smote streams of water from a rock in the wilderness. Dominguez has opened the way of covering the scorehed plains which form three-quarters Of the sur lace of Mexico. into well watered plantations, producing from 90 to 40 bushels of corn to the acre. By com Jining the wizardry of dry farming with scientific fertilization. and seed
 election. he has caused his 5000 acre arm at San Juan Tecamachalko in
 he state of Puebla, to produce ten old above the yield Of the surround
 ng hacieR6as.
 Farmers in the United States have been lcns aware of the excessive .cheapness CT land and labor in Mex ico. but have been restrained from settling here in any large numbers by the aridness of the soil and the eX- pense of irrigation. DOmingUez's 8 adaptation of the principles of con seryation of tho moisture to Mex ican agriculture has thrown down that barrier. and made it possible by & simple and easy treatment of the soil. for crops to flourish unwitheT- ed during months of rainlessness-
 southeriy migration of farmers has been for many years feature O. agriculture in the west and south. west, the husbandmen abandoning high priced lands for cheaper lands farther south. Iowa farmers have gold their Sl50 an acre land to buy larger quantities of land of equal fer tility in Illinois for S120 an acre. The Illinois farmer has in turn moved into Missouri. buying as good land as that he quilted for $50 to S10O an acre. Thousands of Alissourians have like wise emigrated to Oklahoma and Tex as where land of high productiyeness may be had for S10 an acre.
 So far the movement has been halt cd at the Rio Grande, but with the possibility of buying a farm for s bill, hiring twenty laborers for g. day and producing crops of % bushels of corn to the acre it is con siGered likely that the next few years may see an immense exodus of Ameri- can farmers into the Latin republic.
 Heretofore the Latin republic has relied mainly on it's mines, but the resources of these collapsed miserably under the strain of the panic. So little was agriculture esteemed that Mexico has never had a secretary Of agriculture; but ther is talk of os- tablishiug such an office. Domin- guez's feeling on the question is ex- pressed iu his statement:
 My ambition Is to bring the Mex ican agricultureal standard up to that of the United States. I think this can be best done by encouraging Ameri- can immigration to Mexico and by in- troducing American farm machinery in place of the German machinery which is now almost exclusively used. hope to see a larger increase of Am eriean immigration into Mexico. Mex jeans generally are pleased to have industrious men from the United States settle among them