Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1913-11-28
DEMING, NEW MEXICO, NOVEMBER 2s, 1913
THE FARMERS PROBLEMS


An estimate recently made placed the of cult.
Mmbres Valley There
than 10000 the shallow belt living and bank
be had by industrious farmers from tracts ranging size from five
ear the city, forty and without truck gardening. The
average will, predicted than twenty
The farm at the present time contains not than foryfve
with evident tendency decrease The Valley will
support the lowest estimate $500 farmers and their families which
rural population of at least 10000 souls This rural population will be
concentrated about png city of 1000 inhabitants the railroad
New Mexico county county, the Theoretical
radius of about fifteen miles Three the reclamation OF tn"
Mmbe Valley the Pigment of glorious dream today effort
being forth by local and foreign capital to make this vision of
garden the desert Tomorrow will fuller realization
With families living each twenty the valley will present
the aspect of suburban conditions than agricultural community the rain
belt Inc problems OF earN OF the farmers are Identical Doh a" TO product
ion, distribution and finance This concentration population with ken
that the closest cooperation possible Independence
Ton guaranteed under the pump method oil galo ana by the Tact TIA"
crops diversified and easily held Tor best markets which be reached
easily three competing line, railroad Cooperation
possible but l. even now potent economic fact The farmers are organized
and they have already ared the benefits of united action.
Cooperation be effective be based information other
wise sell dtsr"mg Much OF he cooperation preached today Is moi
effective and this because ca,tc intent and depends the
wholesale readumcn of existing economic conditions What the present
generation wishes to know now " ind prosperity and happiness under
the present order of things. If this accepted be
That certain proposed measures must he discounted rejected This true
oil the proposal to make special provisions Tor the farmer that h" may
borrow long time loans less rate of interest than other Dor
This is when incorporated into law, the kind
l>aton ana u-Acah All the farmer needs square deal the
opportunity borrow equality with the stock gambler
industrial undertakes If this idea should be place
American farmer on par wit" the Enopcna peasant who just emerging
rfdom. and indeed from study of the European peasant
condition that bt, proposal originates 1t is said that farm financing j.
easy Europe under the par" system use there and Is dgud from
this that the system proper Tor America This conclusion reach
study conditions the lack
knowledge of the American the conditions
correcting and here that the information be had
The fact that the lutcd about of
agricultural lands producing has
exporting nation proof of the fact that education needed somewhere
The industrial supremacy caused the
and the consequent condition food production distribution
Very few agricultural colleges have been able grcaty people
they supposed For instance they
stances teaching how raise larger crops but could not tell the farmers
how they could avoid being enazed increased production Dsb
uon equally factor The chief trouble with the agricultural college
that jealous and attempt uNp place university the
consequent neglect OF IT. properly activities This i true in New Mexico
where the agricultural college has had part development
of agriculture except perhaps in its immediate vicinity.
farmer who be reached and helped if the agricultural
Justify This
which brings the the personal contract
with the the soil.
If the farmer of today capable which producing
maximum the farmers the
produce and the what they which
there would be the daitect which the problem
economic life The must be eliminated there he relief
elimination through better organization.
1t has been urged that the social conditions the
teton to the end that they the advantages
supposed To be monopozed by the cities This
don here where telephone lines high power
entire valley where individual pumping plants supply the purst
not only for irrigation but dmtc where the
the around where the growing proximity
healthy community activity looking intellectual beencn.
uncommon sight the house
electric lights. hot and cold telephone, and all the
enjoyed modern cities. What the
tanned through cooperation and safe that considering the high
of American farmers living here they will take proper
obtain their desires.