Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-10-09
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business inf Every city has within
itself the latent power to reach this
high plane.
Size does not make n real city.
Many Of our large cities are corrupt
and dirty and full Of graft and crime
and disease and are Stunned by the
mass Of the people for these reasons.
Wealth does rot make q real city,
for when the shivering, starving.
wretched woman gathers her wan
babe to her breast to shelter il with
her rags while she watches the par
aiding fashion in many a large city
which spells the other side Of the
picture.
Brains do make a real city. The
so-called hub where they mix brains
and beans has only recently awaken
ed TO this very important fact.
Age does not make a real city AS
witness the ruins along the Tiber and
the Jordan and the Euphrates that
were live zones Of trade when this
land Of ours lay an untrodden WIDER
ness.
The problem is like the familiar
one in mechanics: viz, that the i'm
pOrtance Of a center Of revolution
depends upon the area and upon the
spot of the area that swings around
it.
We know Of little cities that as far
as the ordinary conception Of city
are concerned have no cause to live.
but they have so well occupied the
land around them and built up their
farms by diversified farming and are
employing the most up-to-date mark
ct and shipping facilities and many
manufacturing processes for the care
Of their excess vegetables and fruit
that today they are perfect little
models, well worth living in as every
one will testify who visits them.
They have not one single advan-
tage over Deming. What would il
mean TO this city il We were canning
one thousand tons Of tomatoes, a
half million bushels of sweet corn.
u million cans Of apples and plums
and pears. u thousand carloads Of
evapOrated fruit and potatoes, and
doing this every yearf Furnish the
market and the farmers will raise the
stuff.
We would say that there are four
fundamental things necessary to
make a real city out Of Deming.
First, the building up Of all lines Of
agriculture. Second, to realize that
growth Of the entire community is
more important than the growth Of
the individual. Third, to take care
Of our physical plant. Fourth, to
thoroughly organize the city along
efficiency lines.
We will only refer to two Of these
fundamentals in this article. Along
the heading, Building up on oil lines
Of Agriculture" First Of all, occupy
the farms. Take up the waste lands.
There are a thousand men with Ave
thousand dollars apiece somewhere
within our reach who can be brought
to Luna county to farm 10000 ac-
res Of land. Think of it, five million
dollars, a thousand men, a thousand
women and four thousand children,
all working together to make homes
for themselves. Does it seem like a
dreami $4,000 properly expended
by Deming where these people live
will do the trick.
In the next place, develop the
farms you have. Concentrate less
land and farm better. Don't scatter
your energies. A handful Of sand
will hit more cats, but a half brick
will get the cat. Ten acres Of alfalfa,
twenty acres Of kaffir and feterita
and ten acres Of mixed products with
twenty cows and fifty hogs will make
more money than a section as ordi-
narily farmed.
Let the chamber Of commerce cut
the publicity and advertising to the
lowest possible notch.
Take $1,000 and equip a forty
acre model dairy and hog farm, put
the government agriculturist on this
live on it. II he knows his business
he ought to make that forty acres
pay every dollar that his department
costs Luna county.
Through your farm association
and under the direction Of Agricul-
turist Southworth, this work can 90
on, the one trouble being that Luna
county needs three men instead Of
one.
The third essential in developing
the agricultural features is making a
market. We have already referred
In one method of ding this nv uro-