Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-08
Speaker at Farmers Con-
gress Declares There Is No
Better Country in World for
Purpose Than New Mexico,
RAILROAD MEN GIVE
EXCELLENT TALKS
Problems Of Vital Moment to
Agricultural Interests Of
State Are Discussed by Men
Most Affected,

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state College, Jan. I.-"There is NO
better country in the world than New
Mexico for feeding winter lambs OF
producing spring lambs" declared
Prof. Luther Foster, in addressing
the New Mexico Farmers congress
He wants every farmer to have a
else than to clean up the weeds, eat
M the pasture and forage that other
wise would be wasted and to furnish
spring lambs for the local market
This applies not only to the irriga-
ton districts but also to the dry farm
ing sections, for while in the irrlgat-
ed districts alfalfa and corn are th'
logical feed in the dry farming dis
tricts even better results and greater
profit have been obtained by fecd-
ing cowpea hay and cotton seed meal
Professor Foster believes the day Is
passing when the overfed lamb Will
be demanded and that the moderately
fed lamb will be i'm demand. 1t is
there that New Mexico viii shine. for
even at q margin of only two cents q
pound between buying and selling
price there is a direct profit, not tc
speak of the indirect profit Of return
ing plant food to the soil and getting
rid of the weeds. Silage is cheap
feed but damaged wheat and rough
age are also excellent. Expensive
buildings and outfits are not need
ed for fattening lambs, for the lamh
il fitted by nature for outdoor feed
ing and experiments show that he
sWeats ana frets in closed barns and
does not do as well as in open sheds
Give the lamb all it will eat and two
pounds a week is a good average gain
although almost three pounds a weeH
has been obtained in some expert
ments.
Crop Disposal and standardization.
Two crackeriack talks of immedi-
ate importance to the farming inter-
ests of New Mexico We're made ~ u
S Trumbull Of the FL Paso ano
Southwestern, and w. II. DIN, OF the
Denver and Rio Grande. Mr.. Trum-
bun advocated the raising Of staple
crops: for every acre of truck, oi
fruit or cantaloupes in New Mexico
he would put out a hundred acres OF
staples, although he would at 'he
same time diversity and add livestock
He promised that congress would soor
pass the rural credit legislation bul
that this was not sufficient, for the
farmer must have something upof
which he can obtain credit. lie re-
peated his demand for cheaper lanc
and warned against the Imitation OF
land values, telling of farms IN the
east that forty years ago brought $lot
an acre and can now be bought lol
less than $50 an acre; of fruit lands
in Colorado held four years ago a
$1,000 an acre, on which the run
trees have been cut down and the
land planted to alfalfa; of the decline
of the cantaloupe fad in the salt riv'
or and Mesilla valleys. Despite higf
freight rates, staple crops and i've
stock will always bring some sort o.
a. return, while on shipments oil ap
pies or cantaloupes, the returns arr
often so little as to be discouraging
He declared that hi6h freight rates
will be with us for many years tC
come for the railroads cannot Dt
made TO pay otherwise in the sparse
w settled country Of magnificent as
tances in the west. He pointed tonne
fact that one-sixth of the railroad
mileage of the country is in receivers
hands because the freight rates
charged were not sufficiently high
There is no more wholesome occupa