Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-01-23
Crew of Santa Fe Display Train
Amazed By Showing Made
By YeSo Farmers; Meeting
at Clovis Tonight,
Train Schedule fo
edncsdaN. Jan. -.
Especial Dispatch to the Morning Journnl.I |

lSpecmi Dispntcb 10 the morning Joufhni'i
fabian, n. NJ, Jan. 22.-This has
been one of the busiest and
most profitable days for the
DertonstIatiCn train staff since the
tour of New Mexico began. The
whole population and the farmers FOR
niles around have been waiting at
every stop. TWiae the train has been
welcomed with brass bands blowing
blasts of bright music, and at every
town the coming OF the train has
been Inade tho oocg sion for celebra
ton 1t had been "A most gratifyine
demonstration of the general appre-
citation of the people for the effort
hcira made toward better and more
profitable farmiIs y the agricultural
college and the Santa Fe railroad.
Satisfied as they were with the days
woik. y g train - 3ti, every member
of it, turned in with a sigh of relief
and weariness when the train tied up
here for the night Taiban was out
in force. a band was playing as the
train pulled in and after the lectures
and demonstrations it gave a very
enjoyable concert The whole popu-
lation of the town was out and farm
ers who had driven many miles stay
ed until the close of the evenings
program. Tomorrow the train stops
at Tolar. Cantara, Melrose ST. Vrain,
Blacktower ana TeXico. spending the
night at Cows. wnere a night meet
ing will be held.
The train got late start out of
Vaughn this morning. one of the
big Mallet Compounds got tangled up
with the tuIl table in the Vaughn
round nousc and cnned in the DEM
ousllJl.u tIaiL orEinc behind it. But
superintendent McMahon's crew is
right on the job. The run from
VI ughn to Buch.tlpn, the first stop.
was made at 50 mites an hour and 10y
the tiara stop the train was again
win the schedule. About sixty peo-
pie Wee, out at Buchanan and 156
appeared 1t N,so. Here the members
o. the train staff learned something
Of what ,an lc done 10y dry farming
under intelligent methods. j. T..
Rogers was on hand 10 show the cX-
ptrts his permanent exhibit of dry
farm products, housed in a show room
next the depot. The exhibit includes
part of the prize winning showing
made by the Yeso people at the Al !
buqucrquc Fair and the international /
dry farming congress AT Colorado |
Springs with considcra ble pride the |
farmers also placed an exhibit on the I
station platform consisting of milo, F.
corn. beans. cowpeas, sorghum, melons J.
squash. peanuts, etc. 4 huge bucket I
of eggs was not the least intctrtcsing I
showing The owner wanted 2 cents .
the dozen for them and they were !
fresh. &. l.. Maxey. one of the pros
porous dry farmers of the district.
brought tn a sample of some $50 gal
Ions OF high grade sorghum which he
mad, and sold from his farm this sea-
son. This farmer grew twelve bush
els of high grade corn 10 the acre ana
seven hundred pounds OF beans to the
acr, during the past season without
irritation. He also had excellent sam
plies of cotton, peanuts ard other pro
ducts. It was showiug that aston
ishrd the entire party. except Prof.
Uusl.v who for the past two years
has been 90. guiding spirit uf the
district At Ricardo sighty-two pe"-
pie we're present. several Of the
farmers had come for more than
twenty miles.