Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-03-11
D-T|MERS Of
DENYING To HOLD
ANNUAL BANQUET
Association ArraOgeS for Biz
Notification at Harvey
House as Guest of President
of Organization,

tsPTclAL ooREsseonosscs 70 NoaNiNo JOURNAL
Deming. y. NJ. March l0.--Thc Old
timers association is planning for
hig time Friday evening at their third
annual reunion and banquet mt tee
Harvey house They will be the
guests OF the president of the associu
ton, Alderman Sigmund Lindauer
The association includes nearly forty
of the old-time residents of this VIZ
entity who have been here since the
year 1888
1t is somewhat remarkable fact
that there has not been a death I'm the
Old-tmers' association during the
past year. and there were only two
Geaths the year previous. MIR A. j.
Clark, Col. T. T. Rurdick.
Secretary Edward Pennington, In
his very neatly worded invitation, con-
cludcs with the following stanza
Bring with YOU this card, and your
uld-time smile.
Danish the "glooms' aud "gct gay"
for a while;
I Wear what YOU haye-We can't care
for style,
It's YOU that wen see, not your
coat nor your "Ulc"
Profit In Feeding steers.
steers has been exemphfied by Mr. II.
IT,. Jacobs, one of the successful farm
trs Of the valley. Mr. Jacobs put
tWenty-seven range steers ON alfalfa
and rough feed from sixty to ninety
days, allowing them To run around the
wheat stacks. but feeding them no
feed whatever outside of the alfalfa
aud roughage He sold the bunch 40
"a profit of S4S0.df. or an average
profit of about SlN per head Mr..
Jacobs says that any farmer i'm the
Mmbrcs valley can duplicate this per
centagc of profit by doing the same
as he has done.
The raising of hogs mas been given
"a great impetus in he Mimbrcs val
ley through the well directed efforts
of the Southwestern Hog company IT
which Mr.. G. G.. Carr formerly Of
PENNSYLVANIA, is president and man
aEer The company has already lc-
quired about sixty fine brood sows AND
is purchasing high grade males and
females all the time. A good many
fine little porkers are putting In their
appearance. and are showing up fine
to the great delight of the stockholl-
crs of the company IT is the inten-
tom OF the company to breed Duroc
Jerseys and Tamworths the former
for pork ana the latter for bacon
Interest in Raising Hogs
a good many people are interesting
themselves in this proposition, as
they regard the raising of hogs in
the Mimhres valley an absolute sur"
road to success I'm the same vicinity
where the company operates rs hoS-
raising industry a number of pro
gressiVe farmers have joined the pro-
cesslon, and are importing some of
the finest specimens OF porkefs ever
seen in New Mexico. Harry Miller IS (
bringing in from Illinois gifts that /
are worth 500 each and Will breed F
up line of Duruc Jerseys that can
be made TO weigh better than 1000 .
pounds. The sire OF some of his
high bred stock viii be exhibited at
the coast exposition and will tip the
beam at slightly better than 1850
pounds our farmers are quite partial
TO DuroC Jerseys ON account of their
prolific breeding qualities Some of
the little families out there have as
many as twenty and ranging down 20
fifteen or twelve. There Is no doubt
in the minds of any people but that
the hog industry is bound 10 be ore
of tremendous importance 10 the
farmers of the Mimbres valley
\ bunch of Illinois and Minnesota
farmers are purchasing Mimhrcs val
ley lands this week, as a result of the
activities of the Mimbres valley Al
falfa Farms company and they all
will join in the cattle and hog We
dustrN which they consider absolutely
safe and sure