Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1914-03-13

marketing, IL not cooperative mar
ketign, must be developed in this
portion Of the Union. and it follows
from the facts which have hereto
fore set forth, regarding the COM
posite character Of our people, that
any scheme Of cooperative endeavor
will be more or less difficult to in
iiiate and possibly more difficult to
execuie. Many of the brightest and
most capable Of our people, deep in
their hearts, consider themselves as
temporary sojourners in New Mexico,
hoping To make n stake and get back
To the states, from which they came,
To pass their remaining days. These
people are naturally looking for
quick profits from their individual
effort. while those of our American
farmers, permanently attached to our
state, are frequently only slightly ac-
ouainted with one another, and not
easily welded together in any scheme
for community upbuilding.
Possibly am not wrong in reciting
this catalogue of difficulties growing
out of the completely of our condi-
tons before discussing some of the
more cheerful features of New Mex
leo rural life. At cost of from
$500 to $500 per acre, the dry
farmer should always produce
enough to pay for his seed and labor
and should three years out of five.
produce, under present market condi-
tons, wheat, milo maize, kafir, hav-
ing II value Of from $500 to $4,000
per acre. The irrigator who produces
alfalfa should harvest from four 10
seven and one-half tons of hay per
acre, year in and year out. or
course, we have varying conditions
from year to year affecting the crop
and in the higher attitudes the sea-
sons are shorter. lesscning the yield
of this staple. Our hay is worth
from $1,000 to $500 per ton, balcd.
ut the time of harvest, and the feed
ing value of alfalfa is unequaled,
alike for the fattening steer or for
the milk COW. Silos are being con-
structed in many sections Of the
state and their more general use will
materially increase the profit that the
farmer derives from his crop. II is
not all unusual for the irrigator to get
forty bushels of wheat. sixty bushels
IF corn and eighty bushels of oats
per acre. The more reliable his water
supply and the greater intelligence
with which he conducts his work, the
more sure and the more generous are
his returns. While the farmer in the
northern and eastern states feeds
his teams for twelve months in the
wear. in order to have them avail
able for work for possibly six months
in the wear: the farmer in New Mex
leo can work with his team in the
field practically three hundred days
ont of the year. He requires cor
respondingly less work stock, has a
decreased expense of maintenance
and M increased earning power for
him self. Our stock requires less
.hclter, takes less feed for bodily
heat and with reasonable care. W"
sustain few losses from exposure.
believe it is perfectly SAT" to say our
COWS will produce more pounds OF
milk for these reasons on the same
feed here than they can possibly
nroduce where climatic conditions
are more rigorous. The average mar
ket price for butter Throughout the
wear in our towns and cities, is forty
cents pound. Eggs bring about ~
snme price per dozen. II We can
produce more pounds of butter for
every ton of feed and more tons of
feed per acre cultivated and cultivate
the land with fewer animals and less
hired help, we can face the difficult
ties Of our marketing conditions and
the temporary embarrassment OF
high interest rates with some degree
of equanimity. for the marketing
conditions are not impossible to ad-
Just and outside money is now begin
ming to flow into our state for m
vestment. II would not come if the
security were not satisfactory. no
matter what the interest rate might
he. although it is perfectly natural
that the money loaners should exact
ms high rate as they can procure
through the necessities of the Dor
rowers. Our railroads for more than
y generation have considered this n
vast expanse of territory which they
must necessarily traverse in gong
from east to west or west to east.
They are beginning to see in our
valleys. fields for the activities OF
, their farm demonstrators. and ar"
becoming increasingly liberal in their
appropriations to aid in the develop
!, ment of the country which the,
traverse. so that il may become pro
q r.nt