Rocky Ford enterprise., 1914-02-27
BI-PRODUCTS
OF FARM WASTED
Says Speaker at Agricultural
Club Meeting
ENOUGH WATER WASTED TO
lRRIGATE ALL VALLEY LAND
Not Number Of Acres In Crops but
What Can We Produce From An
Acre Is Important Question

Wudt Aan we ffOOuce from An
Acre Is Important Question
That the farmers in the Arkan-
sas valley have been wasting
thousands of dollars worth of BIZ
products each year was proven to
the members of the Otero County
Agricultural association in an adj
dress made to them by Mr.. Carr
of the Holly Sugar company at
the meeting of Saturday, and that
the farmers are awake to this fact
was also proven by statements
made by the speaker.
AS an illustration of the awak-
ening of the farmer to the fact
that his ground must be fertilized,
Mr.. Carr stated that the Holly
company had had a hard time in
giving away the fertilizer from
the feed yards near the factory,
but that this spring the farmers
were crazy for it and were putting
tons of it on their lands mt a cost
Of about 81 per ton, which was
great investment. He argued that
the farmer would be much better
off if he would keep the stock him
self and get the fertilizer in that
way, and that lie would be ahead
of the game If all he got was the
fertilizer.
According to the speaker the BIZ
products are not taken care of as
they are in other parts of the
country, and he stated that even
in other parts of Colorado the far
mer was using better judgment in
the conservation of every product.
The speaker claimed that as
general thing the fertilizer that
was made on the farm was not
properly cared for; that the beet
tops which, if dried and cared for
are worth S1S per ton for feed, are
allowed to mould in the field be-
coming a menace to any kind of
stock.
''It is not the number of acres
that we have in crops" said the
speaker, 'but what can we pro-
duce from an acre, and by ill u.s.
tration it was proven that the far
mer who was paying proper at
tention to the fertilization of his
ground and the frequent rotation
of his crop, was the one that was
winning and who was making
more off single acre of ground
than his neighbor was making off
of any two acres.
The speaker touched at some
length on the rotation of crops
and claimed that beets should not
be grown for more than three or
four seasons on the same ground
without rotation. He also claim
ed that the farmer was winner
who in breaking up field of al
falfa, plowed it under before max
ing the third cutting, as If the
field was to be changed the alfalfa
plowed under at this time was
worth more to the land than the
third cutting of. hay would be to
the farmer for feed.
Mr.. Carr stated that altogether
too much water was used by the
average farmer, and that a suffi-
cient amount of water went to
waste in the valley to water all the
ion-irrigated land. He advocated
twice the amount of fertilization
now used, twice the cultivation
and great deal less water.
The matter of the waste land on
almost every farm that could easi-
ly be brought to high state of
cultivation was touched upon and
the farmer urged to put every
inch of this land to some purpose
other than the growing of weeds.
Other speakers on the subject
were Messrs. Swink, Cover, Blak-
eley, Copeland, Jones, Dye and
Break. The meeting WAS one of
the most interesting and instruc-
tive ever held by the association.
Treasurer Henry Ball called at
tention to the fact that the men,
bership dues should be paid be-
fore March 1st in order to comply
with tine bylaws.
The subjects for the meeting on
March 7 will be "The Right Prep
aration of the Soil" and "The
Better Horse. "