Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1911-09-02
INCREASE Of FOOD
SUPPLY OF WORLD
IS POSSIBLE
New Mexico is Teaching Agri.
culturalists How to Double
Yield BY Utilizing Storm
and Subsurface Waters.

lNal Sow Mexico s trU.u.UG the
HgrDu.turaUsa trr possibility 3D., Joe
,t'Uug ,uo pruduyt.yracss u, thp
average farm puI thus masking pus.
sih.' iu' supply 90, food o. thr
worlds growing population BIS graph
i.auH told iu r,ecat issue off thc
D,u,'r Republican
Ih'r, u' .1 Dec uu fear ul back be-
tnr nation food supply saws 90. zee.
publican. oven should v,.w,rr such
o. fuiuE uus4lHl, double our upuuii-
t.uu within ur next generation
Growth mlH go forward Dy leaps aud
/ bounds. and with b. the demand for
/ Iuuds'uN- got production viii kr,p
pI., with demand Tu, agricultural
| g0Hk.uug which first mad, itself f,lt
about five years ago iu IN. west has
within 'h' last i'N months taken "a
sudden Impetus Thrup years ago tho
/ ruHu ui settlers Co. tho southwest
! reached It's height ON the wave cot
! % dry farming movement that prom
/ IHrd ." mako the s'mI-1rid regions
I bring forth rich yields COT grain. Tn,
uuti-climuN cam, n lHIu. after tVu
years 81 exceedingly severe druuth.
/ during which thousands of o., new
''tilrrs lett their farms and returned
I cast. most of them however. only af.
! Ter rommut,ns on their homestead.
aud wisely securing "a government p.,t-
ont thereon.
DRY farming" cor tho scicu., of
agriculture under soaut rainfall. made
good vhcrc the farmer followed lii
r'oiions. but thousands failed bee
/ cause they lid not heed tho advice OF
| experts These failures have turned
/ ont 90 D." a blessing iu disguise FOE
J tho nigh plains regions because ihr
| advocates ut AIRY farming were
/ forced to take broader path Com
gcrVatiUn OF moisture IN tho soil is at
| the bottom OF their thcory and prar-
/ tee. Many thought OF muistur, only
I as direct rainfall upon their Guilt
water acres. but there b. e limit to
| rainfall under which no plan Of stor.
/ ago ana cultivation vim avail To- pro-
ducc crops The season OF 1910 went
under the limit IN many OF the ncWly
settled regions ST Texas, NoW Mexico.
Colorado ana western Kansas and.
following year like 1909. which al
80 was dry, there was no moisture In
reserve IN the soil
Discouragcmont ana disaster follow.
lcd. aut the wise heads among the AK
riculturll pioneers of the high plains
declined 10 stay whipped They saw
o great light and from the daWuiuR
thereof there has come about
an ideal union ~ "dry farming" and
! irrigation development an over the
southwest that promises to reclaim
| literally millions OF acres % hand hith-
erto uncultivatod. and make other
millions OF acres. now SCantily yield
ing. richly productive.
This is Go be- accomplished by stor-
age OF the storm waters. and utilila-
ton OF thu undorflOw by pumping
ana the development: of artcsian belts.
the newest OF which is located IN
southwest kansas. overlapping the
borders OF Colorado into BuCA county.
thr southeast corner of that state.
An Investigation OF this water he
Nclopmcnt has Just been made by the
agricultural department OF the Rock
Island lines and the results are little
less than astonishing ~ developed
That man has overlooked two uf tn
most important sources of w"alth--thc
water that falls iu the sever" storms
the disappearing streams OF the dos
err region and the und"rilow rivers
~ The plains TIA, inquiry covered
eastern Colorado. western k1nsas,
more than ha,i of Now Mexico ana
tho Panhandle region ui oklahoma
and Texas Tho conclusion reached
bV prot u NJ Culr"iL agricultural
commissioner Tor IN, Rock island
lines. a. that million acres OF land
ON tho company's lines alone win soon
bv reclaimed hy ONE ur thu other pro-
ccs-ps of water conservation hereto
tore mentioned.
Among the storm wli"r storage
propositions which were investigated
was that known as the ruiaritu
scheme. In QUAY county New MrN-
iro. hv means ut which between GO
200 and 10000 acres uf land around
TurumcirI ash De- Wat,rcd Capital
b. prepared o. sWIng This project
which involves the ,Npruditur. u' haIi
a. million dollars for construction
work. aud viii reclaim land that Is
now being but poorly urmod
~ Logan. in Union county New
Mexico. the dry land farmers have
formed an irrigation district that viii
conserve The waters OF IT, creek, Is
1rnuch OF the Canadian. FOR tho pur-
pose of irrigatiug 10000 acres uf trr-
tijc land. THIS D. but the torvruun'r
Iof d schcmr 20 back up tho waters 81
thr Canadian river az point where
tho gorge through which n runs Is
but l.5 feet wide 40 the top. proNid
ing an equal dam SIT. with rcsyr-
IVuir back 81 IL covering soc 600 acre
feet This b. 10 cost t2,000,u0u ana
30 viii bring about 30 coo acres under
Irrigation, The canadian b. one of
the untraccHblr stream uf the south
west, In times OF flood, whore thu
railroad crosses u AT Logan, y. Nj. IL
has been known 10 reach height 90
~ feet. u runs in q gorge about
ig5 feet deep az that point The
harncssing uf this stream not only
viii be- beneficial 10 the land, but win
develop electrical energy as yet un-
calculated, Engineers have pronuuuc-
ed the project entirely feasible.
Al Alumogordo. y NJ an existing
irrigation project o. lea process 81 en-
lergem,nt taat viii afing thousands
Of additional acres under irrigation
and double this new area hy pumping