Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1912-12-06
DEM|NG SMILES
AT COMPETITION
Initial Outlay in Cash and
Overhead Expenses Less
Than Elsewhere
DAY OF SMALL FARMS
Soil, Sunshine and Water Make
Agriculture Easy in MINI
bres Valley,

Deming smiles at competition. In
the issue of November 27 the
GRAPHIC produced the exact figures
to show that agriculture could be
carried on in the Mimbres Valley
with less initial outlay for raw land
and water rights and less overhead
expenses than in any irrigated re-
gion of the Southwest, not even
barring government projects and
arteslan water. To those seeking
the freedom of the soil. costs are of
prime Importance, and this informa-
ton is repeated for their benefit.
DAY OF SMALL FARMS.
The day of the large farm is pass
ing rapidly and it is we'll for the
small farmer that this is So Where
hundreds of acres are now being
cultivated by one man, hundreds of
men could cultivate the same area
and each make more money than the
large tiller and have that leisure
without which there is no possibility
of contemplating the higher things
of life, 1t was said 10y the ancients
that You will admire large farm,
but cultivate a small one, and A
small farm cultivated is more fruit
ful than Il large farm neglected.
As concrete evidence of this fact
the Wah brothers gardens just
mile out of town are cited. With
twenty acres watered by small and
poorly equipped well these almond
eyed Ceestials are reported to in
crease their bank deposit $1,000 a
year
INTENSIVE CULTIVATION.
The small farm means intensive
cultivation and in the poor and eX-
hausted soils of the East excessive
fertilization. While under these un-
favorable conditions intensive rather
than extensive cultivation is prefer
able, the average American farmer
works under the additional handicap
of a climate that sooner or later
breaks his rugged constitution and
renders him unfit for the unequal
contest with nature. In the MINI
bres Valley is a rich silt vcrging to
adobe soil, washed by the erosion of
ages from the mountains, rich in all
the elements of plant food and un-
leached by heavy rains. Every
month in the year the husbandman
may plow his fields under a sun that
shines on the average of 300 days in
the year, tempered in the summer
by high altitude and in the winter
enhanced by low latitude.
ur,u rncr op t1rIN,,
At the present time the high cost
of living is causing "highbrow"
economists to worry over standards
of value, monopoly, wages, distri-
button and other equally elusive sub
jects. Politicians, meanwhile, are
arguing over tariffs, trusts, social
ism, labor unions and governmental
questions that may or may not have
bearing on the social sickness.
Both the producers and the consum-
ers are dissatisfied Why?
Grand total of farm acreage in
Germany, LOG, ,9l3,3l3 acres.
|, Average size of all farms, 1872
, acres.
! Excluding all farms under 2.47
: acres, average size becomes 3i.37
acres.
Grand total of farm acreage in
= United States. Al, col 546.
Average farm. 1866 acres.
Average number improved acres.
? 1913
TOO FEW PRODUCERS.
|, If the comparison suggests any
thing it is that too few Americans
are on the farms. Germany with
her small area has almost half as
many improved acres as the greatest
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