Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1915-07-23
new MEXICO HAS GREAT Pos
SD|uTES AS A FRUIT STATE
So Says Henry Newly Of Taos
County: 0ne-eighth Of an Acre
Of Strawberries Yielded Him S225.
Besides SI85 From Other Fruit.

In an interview with news writer.
llcnry Newly of Arroyo Scro. Taos
county, said:
| have been oul in California fo,
several months. IN the lIcmet valley
in Riverside county. they raise 200
inches for irrigation sixty feet out
of ground with three gallons of dis
iillatc mt six and fourth cents n
Gallon; nine gallons an hour Ia run
n pump. One man raised so inches
Of water sixty feet ON u forty
orchard with u ten horsepower gas
engine with u gallon of fuel an hour
In New Mexico we have incxhausta-
bic water that needs only to be raised
from % to 40 feet. What is the AN
sweri
went to California to see frui,
land worth $500 to 81 800 an acre.
have an orchard in Taos county
that makes more clear money than
any of il.
One-eiehth of an acre produced me
S225 worth of Strawberries last wear.
OF the same land ! got $3.50 worth
of peaches and $35 worth of apples.
That's intensive farming that Cali
fornia cannot equal
Last year | bought tw" boxes of
oranges in California nj $40 aud
sent Ia my boys; the express cost
1925. Do You get the ideal
We ought to have cheap distillntc
fuel in New Mexico; we produce the
hest coal in the country: yet in Taos
county we have to pay $3.50 n ton
for coal and % cents n gallon for oil
that costs only Sis cents in Califor-
MIA.
New Mexico can produce the finest
fruit in the United States. We can
become the most famous fruit grow
iug state in the union if We will or
aanizc and get down to business. We
want to quit giving everything away
lo railroads and middlcmen and gel
the worth of our money.
Out in San Francisco | inspected
exhibits of fruit from Oregon and
from Canada. The Canadian cxhib-
il is put up in splendid shape; il is
II wonderful exhibit; but it does not
bcgin to compare with the exhibit that
New Mexico could make If she would.
| tell YOU we don't realize what II lrc-
mrndous asset we have in our fruit
and what we are losing by not making
the most of it. We ought To set to
work now, get splendid exhibit of
fruit in glass for the state fair and
then send it to San Francisco with
our ripe apples in the fall ! am
proud of New Mexico's showing at
San Diego, but we are making II ser
ious mistake to have no display of
our fruit Mt the big show at San
Francisco. We ought to begin to lay
our plans now to send an exhibit to
san Francisco in September that will
how New Mexico as individually and
indisputably the greatest apple state
in the union.
Mr.. Newby is a plain old farmer;
n farmer with shrewdness and brains
II farmer who knows: farmer who
sees into what New Mexico needs and
who tells il with punch that gets
home To you.
Mr.. Newly first landed in Santa
Fe in 1864. Since that time he has
engaged in irrigated farming in New
Mexico; and he knows its possibili-
ties; what il can accomplish by what
il has accomplished. His plea for the
fruit growers of the state TO get to-
gether, to organize and market their
stuff scientifically and systematically
and to "qui, giving things away is
one that deserves the most thought
full consideration by every horticul-
turist.