El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-04-12

Deming, y NJ. April 1.-THE Rio
Mlmbres Irrigation company Is putting
IN demonstration farm on its prop
erty. near Spalding. The farm will cor
sIsL Of 25O acres, all under irrigation
upon which viii be demonstrated ali
AILuS OF grains adapted to this valley,
and practically all kinds of decidious
fruits, as well as vegetables Wal.
Hamman a horticultural expert is IN
charge Of the orchard. Seven hundred
ana elgnty-fIve apple trees have been
SET out 300 pears, 500 one year old
Hlmalaya berries and 1000 cuttings
Ct the same berry and 5000 strawberry
Iiants- twenty acres have beon
planted TO various vegetab les, and $50
acres IN various grains. Twenty-Five
acres OF wheat are now six inches
nigh. and 80 acres have been seeded
10 alfalfa. which is now from four to
SIX Inches high. and will be ready for
the first cutting by the tenth Of NAY.
e. j. Jacobson is the farm superintend-
ent.
The Himalaya berry above referred
70 IS a native Of the Eimalaya noun
taIns and was introduced into this
country only about five years ago. Il
IS a Seedless black berry, and blossoms
and bears from the first Of June until
apart in rows which are eight feet
apart in roWws which are eight feet
apart a ten foot trellis is built for
the vine. similar to a grape arbOT
berry, and it IS thought that it viii
be a wonderful producer here. NIr.
IammOu, who is employed to Superir-
tend the orchard, comes here from an
agricultural college in Mexico. of
which he was superintendent. and re-
puted 10 be one Of the best authorities
on horticulture in the southwest. .
Packing sheds are being built on the
property of the company in which veg
eta5les and fruit may be expeditiously
packed Tor shipment
The Rio Mimbres company is also
expanding It's quarters in DeminE. In
addition to the two offices already
occupied IN the Deckert building. It
has rented the han 40x60 in the sec
ond story of the same building for
display room, reading and lounEinE
room Here the various products of |
the Mimbres valley will be attractively
displayed photographs Of farming I
scenes, soils analyses, water analyses,
and various other exhibits calculated 4
in the matter Of agriculture and hOr- I
ticulture in this valley.
Z. A Wilson. representing the I. Fl. 1
C., with headquarters at Denver, is
spending q few days in Deming on 4
business
Fred Jack has returned from Fl !
Paso. He reports his wife. on account /
of hose health he has been in FL PasO Z
for several days, cOnvaIescent
z. D. White has left for northern
Louisiana on a business trip
The HOmeplOt company has just pur-
chased a new Buick Is horsepower
Superintendent J. B. Taylor states /
that the high school annual this year !
viii be a credit to the institution It
viii contain so or so pages, 20 OF
which viii be half tones illustrative
Of school life in Deming. Paul Majors
is editOrinchief, and Joe Deckert is
business manager
To Hold Field Meet.
The field meet to determine the
Deming high school representatiyes at
the state meet, viii be held in a few
days All the usual events, such as
the 1O0-yard dash, the 240-yard race
the half and mile races, the standing
races, etc. constitute IfIa program
Several students are showing good
form, and it is confidently epected
that the DeminE high school will take
her share Of the honors at the state
John N. McTeer, manager OF the de
velopment on the tract Of the Alfalfa
Farms company. states the contracts
for six additional pits have been let
making II in all and that three wei
machines are now on the ground put
ting down irrigation wells One drop /
drill is used as an emergency orill
for use when hard substance IS en-
countered that cannot be readily han
died by the anger machines. The
company has built in the last two
weeks eight miles Of graded road The
$3.50 tractor IS expected mere IN . re-" /
days IS horsepower tractor IS beng
used at present on the road work
Big Rabbit Drive Planned.
A big rabbit drive is scheduled for
April IS The school board has de-
cided to allow the school children
holiday The drive will be in charge
of John Humid, who has had large eN-
perience in such drives on the Pacific
coast. He viii drive over the valley
in an auto with Lee o. Lester, and Sc
lect strategic points for slaughteTlng /
the rabbits. The rabbits VIII be driven
into fence corners and killed with
clubs and dogs, no guns being allowed
The parties viii be supplied with wire
for attaching to fences 50 as to form
wings for entrapDing the quarry