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The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1910-06-24
THE FIRST FOURTH OF
JULY.

A letter written by John
Adams to friend the day after
the Declaration of Independence,
reproduced from a newspaper
in the possession of w. S. Nc
Crea Of Chicago.
Philadelphia, July 5, 1776.
yesterday the greatest ques-
tion was decided which was ev-
er decided among men. A res
olution was passed unanimous
ly, That these United States
are, and of right out to be,
free and independent States
"The day is passed. The
Fourth of July, 1776, will be a
memorable epoch in the history
of America. l am apt to be-
lieve it will be celebrated by
succeeding generations, as the
GREAT ANNIVERSARY FES-
TIVAL! 1t ought to be com
memorated as the day of de
liverance, by solemn acts OF
devotion to the Almighty God.
1t ought to be solemnized with
pomps, shows, games, sports,
guns, bells, bonfires, and illum-
inationszfrom one end of the
continent to the other, from this
time forever! You will think
me transported with enthus-
iasm; but l am not. l am
well aware of the toll, and blood,
and treasure, it will cost to
maintain this declaration, and
support and defend these States; !;
yet, thr' all the gloom, | can
see a ray of light and glory. !
can see that the end is worth
more than all the means; and
that posterity will triumph, al
though you and may rue
which / hope we shall not.
"Yours, JOHN ADAMS"
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1910-06-24
THE THING TO LEAVE
YOUR CHILDREN.

The best legacy a man can
leave his children is the memory
and influence of a large, bread,
finely developed mentality, a
well disciplined, highly cultured
mind, a sweet beautiful char
acter which has enriched every
body who came in contact with
it, a refined personality, mag
unanimous spirit.
To have a clean record, an
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1910-06-24

untarnished name, a name
which commanded respect, an
honesty and integrity which
were above suspicion; this is
a legacy worth while, a wealth
beyond the reach of fire or
flood, disaster or accident on
land or sea. This is legacy
allied to divinity.
To bring your children up to
respect themselves, to love the
right and hate the wrong Wig
orous and Independent; to do
their own thinking so they may
become leaders instead of trail
ers-this is to leave them some
thing worth while. They will
have power in themselves to
help themselves, not initiate or
copy, but live their own lives
and form their own creeds. They
will not need to apologize or
sneak or fawn, but stand erect,
look the world in the face with
out wincing, and feel them
selves equal to any environment
and masters of the situation by
virtue of their own power. Such
a legacy will enrich them more
than all the millions you could
amass.
How many people in this
country today are really asham-
ed of the fathers whose money
they are spending. They are
glad enough to get the money,
but they do not like to say
much of their fathers charac-
ters or how they acquired
wealth.
Is it not unaccountable how
men viii struggle and strive
in order to pile up money,
to accumulate a vast fortune
for their children, and SO coin
their own lives, their very life
blood, into dollars which they
leave their children often with
else-no name, no mem
Dry that can be revered? Is it
not strange that fathers win
and crowd so hard for
that which is cheap, and shallow
and unsatisfying, and neglect
the development Of the more
permanent, more desirable, more
beautiful and lasting qualities ?
These shrewd, long-headed
men know very we'll that the
chances are small that a son
viii develope the power of self
lelp and self-reliance when ev-
'rybody is telling him that he
The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1910-06-24
GANDERBONE FOR JULY.

GANDERBONE FOR JULY.
When the Ballinger trial is
ended,
And the jury has said what
it thinks;
When the case has been made
and defended
With the wonted political
winks-
We shall smile-and gads, We
shall need to
That feel it as well had been
dropped,
And the Guggenheim crowd will
proceed to
Resume where it was when
it stopped.
The signs shall come down in
the timber,
And the patents shall tie up
the coal.
The law will get flabby and
timber,
And the trusts will do well
on the whole.
1t always turns out in that
manner,
Although we may blush to
confess it,
And we do not regard it ban
ner
Achievement, exactly, to guess
it.
July is a tribute to Caesar.
One day, with some other in
surgents, he talked by the Pill
lar of Pompey on things Of
political urgence. He was just
on the point of explaining the
key to some government riddle
when a party of regulars jump
cd him and cut him in two in
the middle.
There were Decius Brutus,
the speaker, and Cassius, boss
Of the Senate, together with
others insistent upon some poll
teal tenet. "The party for
everp they shouted, and with
that terrible slasher Servilius
Casca great Caesar as well had
been run through a hasher.
At any rate, Antony found
him cut up into fodder for
fishes, and begged this request
of the Romans, who granted the
least Of his wishes. And thus
it has happened and shall be
so long as the Tiber runs by
the Pillar of Pompey that Cae-
sar shall live in the name of
July.
The Fourth shall return to dis
cover
And what with one thing and
Us waiting in battle array,
another
Regretting we won, anyway. |
The cannon shall boom, and |
the scramble
For things on the medicinel
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poodles and observe the indie
pendence with beating the hair
Off their mutual noodles. They
will alternate making the other
leviathan howl for his mother,
ard if the country at random is
lucky they'll manage to kill
one another.
It's only plan to make mon
ey, deserving the strlctest of
structures, for what they will
have is a race war, dividing
what's made on the pictures.
We've been pretty mad in this
country for dollars, and power,
and places, but this is the
first time we've trafficked upon
the abyss between races.
There never was anything
safe in the awy the forefathers
attacked them, and as for the
saner attainments, the old fell
lows seem to have lacked them.
They simply cast fear to the
bowwows and waded into the
affray, and a boy does not think
himself worthy if he can't shoot
himself, anyway.
The fat occupant in the White
House
Will lie on his back in the
grass
Beneath the green Beverly
naples
Observing the aeroplanes
pass.
The chauffeurs will keep right
on chauffing,
With seeing it's no one but
Bill,
And they'll sigh just to think
what had happened
Had they flown over Saga
more Hill.
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But not every man can be
Caesar, as someone has stated,
alas! and in the due course of
the matter somebody must lie
in the grass. It's hard on a
strenuous nation, afflicting us
all in a way, but we'll look on
the brighter side of it, and
conclude it is good for the hay.
However, Time flies is a pro-
verb,
And one day, his foot on his
gong
And his engine back-pedaling,
August
Will come aeroplaning along.
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shelves

shelves
Shall warn inexperienced coun-
tries
Aspiring to freedom them
selves.
The dynamite cap and the
rocket shall remind us Of tyran-
ny thwarted, and the valiant
forefathers shall turn in his
coffin to see what he started.
The eagle shall mount on his
pinions and circle the North
and the South, and the rapid
fire orator on the platform and
shoot off his mouth.
This latter, however, is harm
less in a strict pathological way,
but remains Notwithstanding an
evil we must in due season allay.
Alas, how deficient is nature
that might lay this pest on the
shelf with ruling that shooting
his mouth off he gave the lock-
Jaw to himself!
This tetanus, we are quite
certain, has good and defensi-
Die uses, and all of its mani
festations thus far have been
only abuses. The idea, as we
regard it, is not that it should
be the cause of any more ser
ious matter than locking the
orators jaws.
You know that we never hear
Of it except on the Fourth of
July, and whenever some in
nocent gets it we forever are
wondering why. Well this is
the fact of the matter, and by
Jove, we are willing to bet it
turns out in the long run that
no one but lot of old wind
tanners get it.
However, be that as it may be,
And get whom the tetanus
will,
The jubilant youth of the ma
tion
VIII resume with its shoot
ing to kill.
The safe and the sane celebra-
tion
viii suit us who are not so
skittish,
But the youngsters have got to
do something
To show what we did to the
British.
At any rate Jeffries and John
son will growl like a couple of
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At any rate Jeffries and John
son will growl like a couple OF
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-24
Pumping In the Mimbres Valley
By R. Bedichek

the Humid well, two and one-half miles
southeast. In drilling the ShuH well
the first water bearing stratum was
encountered at depth of thirty three
feet, the second stratum at about eighty
feet, and the third at one hundred and
fifty feet. The aggregate thickness of
these three stratas is 40 feet.
The well proper is twelve inches in
diameter and is cased solidly except
where the second and third water
bearing strata occur, and there, in
stead of casing. the Layne screen is
substituted. A fifty foot steel pit is in
stalled two feet in diameter perforated
where the first stratum occurS) at the
bottom of which is set a No 5 Layne
& Bowler pump. 1t can be seen that
the perfOration of the pit and the
screening of the two lower strata con-
meets these three layers Of water-b bear
ing material, so that the we'll is fur
niShed with water from all of them.
The Type of Engine.
A 45-horse power Weber old style
GS95) engine furnishes the power to
run the pump. The loss in efficiency
caused by the altitude flour thousand
three hundred feet above sea levell is
fifteen percent A belt from the engine
runs the pulley of the pump. and when
going at a normal rate, this pump de-
rivers Twelve nunOreQ I1ItN gallons
of water per minute or $4,000 gallons
per hour. Engine naptha, which costs
twelve cents per gallon, is used, of
which four gallons are consumed per
hour
The lift when the pump starts is
twenty-seven feet. but after a two
hours run. the head is pumped off and
the water stands permanently at forty
two feet. When pumping at full ca
pacity. this plant waters one and one
half acres of Irish potatoes per hour:
and this year it is taking care of one
hundred seventy acres of potatoes. on
ions and feed crops
The cost of the ShulI plant incIud-
ing everything, was $4,000. This we'll
with its present equipment is able to
take care of two hundred and fifty
acres of ordinary crops
Cost of the Plant
The Humid plant cost $4,000 The
same strata of water bearing material
were encountered at about the same
depths, but the strata were thicker
so that the Humid well was equipped
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-24

1.-THE time has now arrived for
planting onion seed for next
seasons crop. The best results
are secured by sowing during Septem-
Der and the early part of October
Without q pumping plant fall planting
is of course not practicable in the
southwest, and the farmer not so pro-
vided finds it best to sow the seed in
the early spring.
Onion Culture Old Here.
Onion culture is one of the oldest in
dustries with us in this region. 1t was
the FL Paso onion, the White Italian
Tripoli. and the Ell Paso grape, that
made the Ell Paso valley famous as an
agricultural community in the early
davs before the river started in on Its
erratic career. Onions weighing one
and two pounds and so mild that they
could be eaten out Of hand like an
ample were grown, and supplied to
wagon trains and shipped to remote
mining and cow camps. No one seems
to remember when the FL Paso onion
was first introduced. but it is prob
able that it came here in a manner
similar TO the Mission grape. It is an
onion with a very large top and long
roots that give it splendid drouth re-
sisting qualities. In a test at the
Texas experiment station, out of So
varieties sOwn in the open ground.
the III Paso, or large Mexican. gave
the largest yield In two year keep
ing test at the New Mexico station. the
FL Paso onion showed only fair keep
Ing qualities At the end of this
period there were not over 40 percent
OF sound bulbs remaining, whereas the
Australian Brown, American Prize
Taker, Australian Yellow Globe, Extra
Early Red, Gigantic Gibraltar, Large
White Globe, Philadelphia Silver Skin,
and Round Yellow Danvers averaged
over 80 percent Of sound onions
The Best Kind.
The FL Paso onion is large bulb.
roundish, fiat in form, with a white
moderately thin skin, a fair keeper.
has a tendency TO divide and is very
attractive. The writer was able to
secure two and two and a quarter
cents a pound for those raised on his
farm below e. Paso in the FL Paso
market when brown and yellow onions
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-24

A hand drill will sow the seeds sat
isfactOrily and uniformly. 1t should
be covered about an inch and irrigated
to start termination. Before using the
drill in the field it is well to try it on
the barn floor to determine whether
or not it is allowing the seed to drop
thickly enough. 1t is best to sow seed
plentifully to assure a good stand.
Soil Important Feature.
The soil onions are planted in has a
great influence on the yield. heavy
clay soil packs and bakes so that the
size and yield of the bulbs are cut
down considerably and their shape is
not as good as those grown in ligh.
rich soils with sufficient plant food
near the surface.
Prof. Garcia has drawn the follow
ing conclusions from his extensive ex-
periments with onions:
The new method" has been more
satisfactory than the old
Other things being equal, the earlier
the transplanting in the spring, the
better the results.
Very small onions. half as large as
a lead pencil, can be transplanted with
equally as good results as when they
are larger.
On rich, loamy soils very heavy
yields can be produced from some of
the larger varieties, under ordinary
treatment.
In stored onions, there is little or no
decay; practically the whole loss comes
from sprouting.
Transplanting is no more expensive
than thinning out in the field.
The estimated cost of production is
less than the cost reported from many
onion growing states.
In order to get a better market and
more steady prices, onions should he
grown on a larger scale. AS long as
the supply is so exceedingly limited
the market is not likely to be bettared
Light and frequent irrigations should
be practiced. instead of heavy ones at
long intervals.
The checking of growth. especially
when the bulbs are forming, and then
lrrlgating afterwards, tends to nro-
duce new growth in certain varieties
which, as a rule, is a detriment to the
crop.
Standing Water Bad
Water should not be allowed to stand
too long in low places If possible.
the plats should be so arranged that
all of the extra water due to excessive
irrigation can be drained off
The very muddy water which comes
from the Rio Puerco does not seem to
be injurious to the bulbs.
frequent cultivation is very neces-
sary.
The Planet. Jr.. double wheel hoe
does very satisfactory work and is a
good labor saving machine.
BY bending over the tops al ripen-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-24
TWO BIG MEETINGS OF FARMERS

rrigaton
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-24

ing time. the onions seem to mature
very evenly.
Hand culture is preferable to horse
culture
Onions are not as perishable as many
other crops. Many varieties can be
kept until late in the season. and thus
a better price secured for them.
The onions in all the tests were
grown in rows Is inches apart and
four inches in the row. Outside of the
fertilizing they received only the or
binary care which consisted in keep
ing them well irrigated and culti-
waited and clean of all weeds. The
weeds were hoed out by hand from
between the plants in the row, while
the wheel hoe was used for the mid
dies. The onions were irrigated every
10 to Is days, depending on the wealth
er conditions.
Applying Fertilizer.
The fertilizers were applied broad
cast after the onions had started TO
grow rapidly. and usually after an
irrigation so the nitrate would dissolve
quickly.
The results show that the fertilizers
increased the yield. The sodium nj
trate applied twice at the rate of 500
suits of any of the nitrate pIats. while
the same amount applied in four appli
cations produced the smallest yield.
The MANFRED plats gave the heaviest
yield.
AlkaH reduces the stand and nra-
vents the proper development of the
bulbs, while too sandy soil is NOT for
tile enough, even after it is fertilized
to produce a large yield of large
onions. The best soil is a good loan
The results Of the tests show that
While the largest yields are had from
transplanted onions. good crops NAV
be raised from early field planted seed
If the seed cannot be started in the
fall the next best thing is to plant the
seed IN the Held from about January
10th to February 10th, putting the
rows Is inches apart and thinning the
plants to four inches in the rows as
soon as they are large enough. The
later the planting the smaller and mora
inferior the crop of onions.
Fall Best Planting Time.
1t is also best, at least in tho NJ
silla valley. to plant the seed in tba
fall from about the 25th of SeptemL
Der to the 18th of October. If the sod
is planted early in September a very
large percentage of the onions will
produce seed pods the following sea-
son. On the other hand if tn, seed is
planted late in October the eern6ina-
tion will be slow and the Seedlings
will not grow large enough for trans
at the proper time the follow
ing spring.
Cost of Production.
The cost of production has NOT ex-
ceed"d $50 per acre. The cost of nro-
duction varies on different farms. This
variation depends somewhat on how
weedy and stiff the soil is. The moro
weedy and stiff the soil is the more II
VIII cost to grow the crop
The Deina onion is practically tha
same as the Gigantic Gibraltar and is
we'll adapted to our climatic and soil
conditions. 1t grows very large and
IS a heavy yielder.
The results from the car load of
onions shipped to Chicago show that
our onions will Sell by the side of the
imported Spanish variety.
Young onion seedlings will stand a
minimum temperature of nine degrees
above zero without injuring them in
he least, but a zero temperature NAV
kill some Of then
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-24

with eighty feet of strainer or screen.
rs against forty feet in the Shull well.
Otherwise, the wells are about the
same
The machinery, however. is a little
different The Humid well is equipped
with a No. Layne & Bowler pump
with nine and five-eighths inch dis
charge, and with a 35-horse power
Western gas engine. Engine naptha
is used at this plant. costing twelve
cents per gallon. Thirty-ffve gallons
are consumed in a ten-hour run. and
the pump delivers fifteen hundred
gallons per minute, or ninety thousand
gallons per hour, or nine hundred
thousand gallons in ten hours, the
fuel cost for this much water being
s4.20- This plant waters two acres per
hour of ordinary crops. but requires
three-fourths of an hour to water one
acre of alfalfa. 1t will take care Of
one hundred sixty acres of alfalfa. or
twice that acreage in beans or ordina-
~ field crops.
The cost of this plant may be itemiz-
ed as follows: Engine. $1,000; well and
pump. s17OO; engine house, $500; total,
sS200
These two plants are typical Of the
irrigation plants in the lower MINI
bres valley. There are plants larger
than either of these, and there are a
great many smaller ones. 1t may be
announced as a general rule that the
larger the plant the less the cost OF
the water.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-24

brought only one and a half cents in
wholesale lots.
New Onion Culture.
Sowing onions in the seed bed and
transplanting into the field when tn ~
are about size of a lead pencil is
known as the new onion culture. 1t
has many advantages over the old way
and is the method commonly used
among successful growers In the
transplanting method one and a half
to four pounds of seed are sown in
stead of four to six pounds when sown
in the field. Transplanting costs about
$25 an acre, but the cost of thinning
and extra wedding offsets this, and
the expense is no greater. With about
four months the start of the field
planted onions in growing. the trans
planted ones have the opportunity to
make great growth before the hot
weather interfeTes, and there is the
chance to market them earlier.
1t has been found that transplanted
onions make more shapely and uniform
bulbs. bring better prices on account
of their better appearance. produce
greater yields and are more certain.
Prof. Garcia last year compared the
yields of onions planted in. the spring
with that Of those sown in the fall
and transplanted in the spring, and
FOUND that the spring planted pro-
duced at the rate of 59,319 pounds per
acre as compared to S5.387 pounds per
acre produced from transpIanted seed
lings, difference of 26,O6S pounds.
Successful Varieties.
The varieties that have given very
satisfactory results at the New Mexico
station are: Early White Queen, Bar
letta. White Bermuda and Extra Early
White Pearl for early ripening. They
are medium in size fat, with thin,
white skin and small tops, mild and
not good keepers. The Early White
Queen was the most satisfactory table
onion in the test. The Red Victoria.
Prize Taker. Gigantic Gibraltar and
Brown are heavy yielders
and good keepers. The Deina or
Gigantic Gibraltar. has given excellent
results at the New Mexico station and
is well adapted to conditions prevail
ing here It has given yields that
average considerably over 1000 bush
els per acre.
Planting the Seed.
Before planting the seed in the fall
the seed bed should be made perfectly
level. The seed may be sown in small
plats on the sides or ridges. or in cold
frames covered with glass or cloth.
1t has been found that a fourth pound
Of seed will sow a bed six feet wide
and Is TO "a feet long when drilled
In rows three to four inches apart.
Attention must be given to irrigation
during the winter. The soil should be
kept moderately moist and well Guilt
vated
The seed should be fresh, for its ger
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-09-24

minative ability decreases with age.
At the New York station the germina-
tive power of onion seed was found to
decrease at the following rate: