Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1910-12-09
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The Business-F Farmer of Ell
Paso Prints a Nice Story
About Deming
GETS AT THE FACTS
Tells the Prospector what to
Raise and about the
Profits.
GETS AT THE FACTS

The following was printed in the
last issue of the Business Farmer,
printed at III Paso:
Climatic conditions and mining
and mineral resoarccs were at one
time the chief assets of Deming.
Such is not now the case. The
Mimbres valley is doing more than
any other section of the Southwest
TO demonstrate the fact that, where
shallow water can be found, an acre
can he put under irrigation, by
means of u pumping plant, just as
easily as il can un1er any of our
government projects or storage
systems.
The average cost of u water right
under the various government ini-
CATION projects now in course of
construction is about forty-hve dol
lars per acre, or more than twice ms
much as il costs to develop an ab-
solutely independent water supply
here in the Mimbres Valley. Hence,
in comparing the cost here against
the cost of water under gravity sys-
tens, you must not forget to take
into account the interest on the
greater initial cost of securing
water right; and YOU pump from
your we'll M seeds of noxious plants
to annoy you throughout the grow
ing season. Under a community
ditch, 1t is next to impossible to
keep your land free from a pest of
weeds. which some of your careless
neighbors have allowed to go to
seed upon their farms.
In the immediate vicinity of Dem
ing an cxhaustiblc supply can he OBJ
tanned at depth of from 10 10 100
feet. About eight miles east it
comes to within II feet of the SUR
face. BY drilling to the second
strata. at depth of $50 feet, the
water will rise in the we'll to six or
ten feet above the point where the
first stratum of water was struck.
When asked what were the most
profitable crops in this vicinity, Sec
retary Bedichek Of the Chamber of
Commerce, said,
alfalfa is one of our best money
crops. August seems to he the
best month for sowing here, al
though spring sowings have done
very well. The first cutting comes
the second week in May, and it is
cut once every thirty days from
then ON until frost in October
Thus. We get, 81 rule, five cut
tings. A good stand, properly wat
cred, will produce from a ton and 4
quarter to two tons per acre pei
cutting. We never have any trou
bile curing our alfalfa in the field
and it is not necessary to stack Il
before il is baled. The quality oI
alfalfa grown here cannot he eX
celled in any part of the world. i
has a small stem heavy LEAKAGE anc
contains IA high per cent of sacchar
inc matter The leaves and s'en
at the bottom of the stalk are n
sweet and clean as those of any 9th
or portion. This is due to the fac
that it is watered with clear. pur
water. and not with the muddy wat
or from gravity ditch which invar
iably leaves sediment which dead
ems the stalk at least three inche
above the ground.
The California pink bean Is az
other one of our money crop'
One man can handle 60 acres Q
these beans, they are short sur
crop. they benefit the soil, they r'
ouire little water two or three i
rigations) and are as staple on u
market as corn on wheat. III
farmers net from $35 to 500 p'
per acre per year on this pr
duet"
There are no large orchards
the immediate vicinity of Denim
Pumping for irrigation is so new
this valley that there has not y
been time in which to develop I"
large orchards. The orchards NJ