Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1913-07-25
SCIENTIFIC METHODS
ARE NECESSARY HERE
Alex Mcpherson, Expert Agricultur-
ist, Threatens Farmers with
Rags and Pauperlsm
ARE TRYING TO TILL TOO MUCH
Small Farms Taken Care Of Produce
More Than Broad Acres Ex-
tensively Farmed

tCHsiVcty E""cu
Alex Mcpherson. who had charge
of the demonstration work of the
Berrendo Irrigated Farms Company
at Roswell. has been in the city for
the past few days investigating the
power question in the interest of the
Deming lee and Electric Company.
Mr.. Mcpherson has been working out
irrigation problems for the past thir-
ty years and Is one of the best
posted men on the subject in the
West. For several years he was
connected with the Twin Falls pro-
jecl in Idaho and his success in max
ing farmers make good is well
known.
FARMERS INTERESTED
Wednesday afternoon Mr.. McPher-
son spoke to the farmers of this see
ton at the county court house. He
came to the Mmbres Valley to place
q valuation on the kind of irrigation
here and. as he has thoroughly in
vestigatcd its possibilities for the
Federal Light and Traction Com
pany. his announcement was awaited
with great interest.
PLAIN SPEECH
You must use II greater amount
of skill and care if You are to sue
ceed in the Mimbres Valley" said
Mr.. Mcpherson. who is plain spoken.
Mature has provided the water, the
soil and the climate, and intends, nor
can do more than it has done. The
rest is up to You. To boost is es-
sential. but to make good is abso-
utely necessary to the permanence
of the reclamation work of this Sec
ton. In other words. you farmers
must farm with the same enthusiasm
and intelligence as the advertising
agencies have manifested in bring
ing the Mmbres Valley to the notice
OF the country.
q. KID MlMBRES VALLEY
81 am firmly convinced that if you
Use Your brains in the solving of the
intricate problems of irrigation IN
der the system in use here You will
be eminenily successful in making
this valley II second Garden of Eden.
Adam. You know. was the first irri-
gator who, We learn, was especially
commanded by God to water the gar
den. Adam was not Il success and
You will not be success unless you
use more method in the cultivation
OF your farms.
MUST CHANGE METHODS
"FarmiHe is u business proposition
and there must be shining dollars as
the goal and the reward of your la
Dor and pains. Money is a worthy
and necessary object of ambition and
unless your acres produce profits you
lack ambition and are not capable Of
working in harmony with nature and
her lmmutabe laws. You can't con-
unne as you are or you will die pau
pers in rags. You must study the
fundamental principles of your bust
ness.
BRAINS COUNT
"Too much capital ON farm in
the arid West is. if anything, more
dangerous than too little. | am re-
minded of two farmers of Twin
Falls. One bought his land and de-
posted $4,000 in the bank. An
other came to the section with $l.75
and IN three years sold his farm for
$4,000, while the first man did not
have the $l.75 with which the Sec
ond came to the section. BY this ex-
ample ] wish to impress on you that
farming is not u curbstone occupa
ton, but means industry, thrift and
study, just as every other business
requires.
FARMING TOO MUCH
There are two rocks on which
most unsuccessful farmers have
drifted. The first mistake in the arid
West is to try to farm too much land
The second is failure to properly pre-
pare the land for irrigation. Forty
acres is more land than the average
man has the brains to farm sue.
cessfully and twenty acres is by nc
means a small farm where intensive
methods alone bring reward. The
man with forty acres should seed tn,
lower half to alfalfa, which vii
catch the drainage Of the land above