Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1913-06-20
OIL BUYING ASSN
IS LATEST MIRACLE
Last Saturday, Secretary Dlstrlb.
uted 5000 Gallons OF Fuel
OIL TO Farmers
AVERAGES 1000 GALLONS DAY
Two Barrels for the Price OF One
Last Year Makes Many
Plants Yield Profits

II is said that he who makes two
blades of grass grow where only
one grew before i, Il human benefac.
tor, but the gink who first proposed
that the farmers of the Mimbres Val
ley buy two barrels of oil for the
price of one barrel is well Gn the way
To wear the halo of II saint. Ger
tain il l. that there are dozens of
pumping plants III the valley today
which can afford To operate on seven
and one half cent oil that would have
been idle this season at the old rate
of fourteen cents.
PULLING TOGETHER
There are no farmers in the valley
today who can deny the benefits Of
cooperative buying association,
and the fact that marketing de.
partment of the Mmbres Valley
Farmers Association has been
formed Is proof that the citizens Of
this section are coming to fully real.
lze the benefits of pulling together
for the good of all.
5000 GALLONS SATr RDAY
Last Saturday the secretary of the
association reported distribution of
5000 gallons of oil. Practically ev-
cry user of fuel oil l. Il stakeholder
in the combination and the average
distribution during the irrigation sea-
sou will be- about 900 gallons day
of crude oil and distillatc. Up to
date six ears of oil have been used
and three more are on the road. Of
the nine ears six are of distillate and
three of crude OIL The price OF
crude oil is six cents; forty-hve
gravity distillatc, eight and ne-half
cents, and forty gravity distillate,
seven and one-half cents. So far
every car has tested one degree bet
ter than the contract called for.
GROWING INSTITUTION
Besides the two steel tanks which
are devoted to di>t'iatc the associa-
ton uses an old waicr-workS tank
for crude OIL This latter. however,
will not BE- used in the future. as the
new cement and brick underground
tank is being placed in service and
will receive $4,000 gallons Of the fuel
when il arrives.
CROP INFORMATION
The association has provided
blanks for the use Of the farmers in
reporting their crops, but the press
of business has made il impossible
for the secretary to have them filled
out. The Graphic calls attention TO
the necessity of having this inform
alton ON hand at once III order that
what is raised may be sold to nd
vantage. To make the reason plain,
the unreasonably low price At which
some of the choice alfalfa hns been
sold recently is cited. Not ton OF
the baled hay should have brought
less than $l4 in Deming, yet some
have accepted less. This is II loss
that only cooperation can prevent
and represents the slipping away OF
the net profits.
GET A MOVE on
The following is a copy of the IN
formation blank, which should be
read over carefully in order that the
information may be filed at once with
the secretary of the association;
Mr., Set, Twp.-----
Range Engine or motor, h. p.
-- Pump. size Well, csti'
mated capacity gallons per mill
ute. Acreage under crop---------'
Variety of crops------. Probable
amount for market. when market
able Remarks :--.
The melon crop will soon be due
and the market should be- secured
now or loss is sure to cnsuc as IN
the case Of the first cutting of al
falfa. Some one has said :hai if
farmers would work less and think
more the middleman would find exist
ence something of bore. Those
dollars or cents additional tackled OH
to the end of the price now received
are "velvet." Go after the net profit.
j. II. Taylor, father of Park Tay-