The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-12-16
BIG CROWD
AT MEETING

a nights boosters meeting at
the Commercial Club vas a rousing
success. 1t vas held in the interest
of better local conditions in farming
and horticulture, and there was a
crowd of a hundred representative
farmers, business men and club mem
bers In attendance. The interest
shown in the questions of the night
was keen and reached the point of
enthusiasm before the close. Presi
dent Charles c.. Tannehill. of the
Commercial Club, presided over the
deliberations and contributed largely
10 the success of the evening.
w. C.. Reid started the ceremonies
with a talk OF winter irrigation. He
las been in close touch with all the
big irrigation suits that have been
in he local courts in the past sever
al years and gave interesting conf
parative data. A few years ago IL was
given as expert evidence in court
that il took 60 inches of water per
year to raise good crops. The opinion
of experts has been changing year by
year as the farmers learn better how
10 conserve the water, n now the
amount needed. according TO h most
authoritative Witnesses, is twelve to
fifteen incaes per year. With prope
winter irrigation. declared Mr.. Reid,
twice the land can be placed under
cultivation with an artesian well or
stated water supply than is now cul-
tivated. Crops can be raised as before
on land that is irrigated in the sum-
mer and the same well can irrigate
other land in the winter and raise
crops that need only to be irrigated
IN the winter. After irrigating alfalfa
apples, etc, in the summer, a well
can keep up its work of irrigating in
the winter by watering such crops as
oats, corn and wheat.
Edwin IRENE SsIperint Sndent of
the Hagerman farm at South Spring,
gave some interesting statistics on
the winter irrigation, secured from
last winters work. With irrigation in
he winter only he raised So TO As
bushels of Indian corr to the acre and
"a to 103 bushels of oats Il the acre.
DIR. F.. n. Brown made an interest
Ing talk showing that winter irriga-
ion advances the growth and benefits
trees, alfalfa and various other vege-
iation. He gave personal experience
TO prove his statements. Sewers 9TH
ers made short talks in support of DIR.
Browns Sheories and experiences.
Herbert j. Hagerman gave an ex-
haustive paper and talk on the exper-
ience of the Hagernan farm in the
use of smudge pots. He read his pa
DtA alh SIbh@ III tADIailldtlpb vi val
lous parts of the paper and altogeth-
or his address was one of the most
practical. if not really the most prac-
iical, of the evening. He talked of
tae cost of the pots, of the oil and of
he labor i'm lighting through the dan
gercus season. Summing up, he stat
ed that last fall there was spent at
south Spring farm s1,400 in buying
pots, fuel and labor in lighting, and
that this expenditure Melted $4,000
In cold. hard cash. At tae conclusion
of ais talk he answered questions by
many different men in the audience.
+. r. Faulkner. of Dexter. who rep
resSnts the Hamilton Smudge pot. told
of the experience of the o~rchardists
at Grand Junction, Colo, where last
winter they saved all their apple
crop through a hard freeze. Some,
he said, burned pine knots, others us
ed old powder cans. others oil cans,
others the regular smndge pots, and
and others a mixture of things. Any
and all of them did good work. II is
not what the people use. but the us
ing of eat making devices that save
the crop, he said. At Grand Junction
the people all pledged themselves to
come out and act as lighters on the
cold nights. 1t came out in the course
of Mr.. Faulkner's talk that one IA
could attend to the filing and light
ing of pots for about 31a acres.
Will Robinson then exhibited a