The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-04-05
Pecos Valley Residents Are
Saved Large Amount BY
Use of Smudge Pots
Normal Crop the Result.
ORCHARD OWNERS
TOOK BIG CHANCES

During the past wceE, from Roswell,
south, the general use OF the smudgo.
pots impressed upon mankind that while
mature IL uiipowcrful, mon ha. lu ui.
command many things that tend toward
Il ,oftcuiug OF fcr decree For three
nights hundred, of poopl, waited on
the blaliag pots, aud as @ result there
will be very neatly normal crop OF
apples. lu number Dt orchards fur
temperature Wa raised ten I,-ryr-. and
~ every ease whore the pots were intel
ligcu'ly used the frost w.s defeated
The result will be the saving of q hun.
dred thousand dollars to the people of
the valley. Many orchard owners toob
the gamblers chance, reasoning chat
1t was not likely that the crop would
be frozen two years iu succession, aud
owing TO the lajcuess OF ulo,somiug
time. they came pretty near squeezing
through, Just how near j, is not now
possible 20 tell Many authorities con.
tend that all unSmudgcd blooms are
gone. It is certain that all OF the trees
which were protected were saved with
their full quota of fruit, and o." lesson
II sufficient ioT the reasonable person
II n ui extreme interest, and D. On
he Snmc line a. the development OF
life insurance. II b. not 80 many year.
ago that many very good people bclicy.
ed that it was wicked 20 buy life IN.
surnnce, reasoning hat life was divine
nud tina, To Use insurance Wa 90 show
q doubt of the Willingness ot the Lord
20 provide. They have more sense now.
aud the family man who now ror, with
ont life Insurance !. Justly looked upon
with suspicion, for the cost Of reliable
insurance has been made so small that
It can be- borne hy the most moderate
incomes-so that D. is "a sin 90 leave
uncovered hy margin the most valuable
asset OF all. The same people who oh.
icctcd ~ lite insurance would have held
up their hands IN horror az the idea OF
the Smudge pot. They would have said
that frost was matter of God 's viii
and that u was q sin 10 Try 90 cvade
IL visitation. The most dcyout would
consider such an idea 10 bc foolish now
Frost is part OF the economy OF nature,
and therefore haudiwork IT God, hut
there is no reason On the world why
the intelligence of man should not be
utilized 10 couuterart i' just the same
a. human animal uses the irrigation
ditch 10 contend against natural
drought. II is matter OF scientific
sense that liroves itself iu both cases,
aud It's application j. making of the
historical great American desert the
finest farming aud fruit growing sec
tion OF the land. The world moves iu
considerable of the natural laws, Take
this matter of the conservation Of soil
moisture, commonly known as the Camp.
bell system OF dry rarmiug When
Campbell first began 10 preach his gos.
pei, one OF the leading secular papers
of the country printed loug editorial
IN which II pHvely questioned the
rightfulness of attempting by this pro
cess TO make farming country out OF
a region that the Lord had set aside
for desert. Mr.. Campbell answered
this by saying that God created every.
thing on this earth Tor wise nnd salu.
tary purpose; the brain OF man was De.
signed to adapt to human use all that
lie had made, and the fact the land
of the desert became extremely fertile
under irrigation was proof tina, he meant
It TO be used at the proper time aud
that To conserve in the soil such moist
urc as Nature had given was simply TO
sorve God in the highest sense by max.
ing waste places productive. The sense
of this position was so apparent that il
illumined the editorial understanding
and to this day there has been no more
doubts expressed The development OF
the smudge pot is a fitting supplement